I have
been reading your review of Leanda de
Lisle's book on your blog, A Trumpet of
Sedition. I would agree that it is not a
particularly good book and that its attempt to defend Charles I's rule is by no
means convincing. But I do not think that it can be described as a
"revisionist" work partly because "revisionism" in early
modern British history has been dead since c.1990.
Its heyday lasted from
c.1976 until the end of the following decade. Whig or whiggish history had effectively perished by the time of the Second
World War and the Marxist history of
Christopher Hill and his allies like Brian Manning was never as predominant as you, I
suspect, might have wished it to have been. It was certainly more influential in the 1950s and 1960s but Conrad Russell's assault in the mid-1970s
terminated its influence.
