Mark Knights is Professor of History at Warwick University. He has written two books about later Stuart political culture, including Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture which is also published by Oxford University Press, and has also written elsewhere about early modern ideas, print, and discourse. He recently organized a conference held in Parliament to mark the tercentenary of the trial of Dr Henry Sacheverell, whose trial features in the book.
[A] unique book * Jonathan Clark, Church Times * a thought-provoking book that spurs readers to take an interest in the late Stuart period is much needed and very welcome. * Rachel Weil, American Historical Review * a work which is ambitious in its remit, entertaining in its form, and successful in its argument: a further notable achievement by a historian with a sure grasp of his craft * Ronald Hutton, Times Literary Supplement *