Lockyer presents a readable survey of Tudor Stuart England that is accessible for moderate to advanced students of this time period. The narrative flows and is interspersed with qualifiable analysis and interpretation. Lockyer demonstrates his generous command of the time period, while keeping his work relevant to the student and not the most advanced scholar. However, the book could benefit from better presentation, including charts, graphs, and pictures. Also, as is typical in British History survey books, organization of topics isolate Ireland and Scotland into their own chapters. While this maintains a good narrative flow, it does damage to chronology. But then this is an on-going problem in the field. Finally, Wales is rarely considered at all. Despite these detractions, however, Lockyer pulls together one of the better surveys of this fascinating time period.

Somehow I think that the previous review was written by a fellow classmate of mine, or my Professor. I would like to say that I throughly enjoyed the book as a text book for our class. I found the well organized chapters very effective and a wide varienty of information presented.