Disaffection and Everyday Life in Interregnum England

Despite advances in the study of popular politics, we still know remarkably little about how ordinary English men and women responded to the transformations that accompanied the regicide, the creation of a republic, and the rise of the Cromwellian Protectorate. This book forgoes the hunt for popular political allegiance in favour of recovering grassroots responses to the tangible consequences of revolution. The book delves into the spaces where everyday practices, social interactions, and power struggles intersected with the macro-politics of regime change. Tussles at local alehouses, encounters with excise collectors in the high street, and contests over authority at the marketplace reveal how the sites and scenes of everyday life became0places where national politics were felt in the most ordinary of activities.