Dr David Scott

Editor, House of Lords 1640-1660

dscott@histparl.ac.uk

Current Research/Role

I am editor of the House of Lords 1640-1660, having joined the History in 1991 and served as a research fellow on the House of Commons 1640-1660 section until its conclusion in 2022. My previous appointments have included Assistant lecturer at the University of York, Visiting Fellow at the Beinecke Library, Yale, and Senior Research Associate of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. I have written approximately 500 biographies and constituency articles for the Commons 1640-1660 volumes. I am currently working on the biographies of peers in the same period.

Research Interests

I have researched and written extensively on the political and religious history of early Stuart Britain. My books include a study of the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century, Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1637-49 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and a history of Britain in the early modern period (1485-1783), Leviathan: The Rise of Britain as a World Power (HarperCollins, 2013)

Publications

Books

The Journal of Thomas Juxon, 1644-1647 (Cambrdige: Cambridge University Press, Camden Society, fifth series, volume 13, 1999) [edited with K. Lindley]. 

Quakerism in York, 1650-1720 (York: University of York, Borthwick Paper 80, 1991).

Chapters in Books

‘The Construction and ‘Inward Adorning’ of Peterhouse Chapel, 1628-40’, in S. Mandelbrote (ed.), The Peterhouse Partbooks (Woodbridge: Boydell, forthcoming)

‘Party Politics in the Long Parliament, 1640-48’, in G. Southcombe and G. Tapsell (eds.), Revolutionary England, c.1630-c.1660: Essays for Clive Holmes (London: Routledge, 2017)

‘Rethinking Royalist Politics: Faction and Ideology 1642-49’, in J. Adamson (ed.), The Civil Wars: Politics and Rebellion in the Kingdoms of Charles I (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

‘Counsel and Cabal in the King’s Party, 1642-6’, in J. McGelligott and D. L. Smith (eds.), Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 112-35. 

‘The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1642-49’, in B. Coward (ed.), A Companion to Stuart Britain (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 311-30. 

‘‘Particular Businesses’ in the Long Parliament: the Hull Letters, 1643–1648’, in C. Kyle (ed.), Parliaments, Politics, and Elections, 1604-48 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Camden society, fifth series, volume 17, 2001), pp. 273-341. 

‘Motives for King-Killing’, in J. Peacey (ed.), Cruel Necessity?  The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I, 1649 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), pp. 138-60. 

‘Yorkshire’s Godly Incendiary: the Career of Henry Darley during the Reign of Charles I’, in D. Wood (ed.), Life and Thought in the Northern Church c.1100-c.1700 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1999), pp. 345-64. ‘Politics and Government in York, 1640-60’, in R. C. Richardson (ed.), Town and Countryside in the English Revolution (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992), pp. 46-68.

Journal Articles

‘King-Cudgeling Tom Chaloner’, History Today (2004). 

‘The Barwis Affair: Political Allegiance and the Scots during the British Civil Wars’, English Historical Review 115 (2000), pp. 843-63.

‘The ‘Northern Gentlemen’, the Parliamentary Independents, and Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Long Parliament’, Historical Journal, 42 (1999), pp. 347-75.‘‘Hannibal at our Gates’: Loyalists and Fifth-Columnists during the Bishops’ Wars – the Case of Yorkshire’, Historical Research 70 (1997), pp. 269-93.

Specialisms: Civil war; party; factionalism; royalists; parliamentarians; House of Lords; English revolution