Introduction – Alex Beeton
Part I: Parliament and perception
1 ‘A Vomit to GOD himselfe’: John Milton and the revolting Parliament – Nicholas McDowell
2 ‘The great Court of Justice’: Industrial interests and petitioning protest in the early years of the Long Parliament, 1640-2 – Ellen Paterson
3 ‘With his hat in his hand’: The House of Lords, participatory politics and parliamentary records, 1640-2 – Alex Beeton
Part II: Parliament in action
4 A plea for the Lords: Party, power and the Westminster peers, 1640-9 – David Scott
5 Parliament and the local propagation of the Gospel during the Interregnum – Rebecca Warren
6 Cromwell and Parliament: Some problems and speculations – John Morrill
Part III: Parliament beyond England
7 The politics of reconquest: Parliament, the army and north Wales, 1643-9 – Lloyd Bowen
8 Madmen or roundheads? The Irish Protestant agents at Dublin, Oxford and Westminster, 1644 – Patrick Little
9 Where was your Parliament before the Scots came in? The Solemn League and Covenant, print polemic and English parliamentary politics – Laura A. M. Stewart
Afterword – Sarah Mortimer