Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Gardiner, Samuel Rawson was a historian best known for his detailed studies of seventeenth-century England and the political, religious, and constitutional struggles that shaped the Civil War era. His major works include History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War 1603-1642, History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649, and History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656. He also wrote The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660. Readers come to Gardiner for careful scholarship, rich context, and a clear picture of how the Stuart period transformed English history.