The coming of war / Anthony Fletcher -- The Royalist war effort / Ronald Hutton -- Neutralism, conservatism and political alignment in the English Revolution / Roger Howell -- The church in England, 1642-9 / John Morrill -- The war and the people / Donald Pennington -- "The ancient law of freedom" / Richard Tuck-- Ideology and politics in the Parliamentary armies, 1645-9 / Mark Kishlansky -- From Cavalier to Roundhead tyranny, 1642-9 / Robert Ashton