Draining the Whig bathwater
Conrad Russell, 10 June 1993
The Personal Rule of Charles I
by Kevin Sharpe.
Yale, 983 pp., £40, November 1992,0 300 05688 5 Show More
by Kevin Sharpe.
Yale, 983 pp., £40, November 1992,
“... comes to find it difficult to write about Charles without moderation. Instead of thinking, like Dr Richard Cust, that revision has tended to throw out the baby with the bathwater, he thinks that there are large quantities of Whig bathwater still to be drained. Many of Dr Sharpe’s arguments will be engaged by historians for some time to come. He does not ... ”