Paul Seaward

Paul Seaward is a British historian specialising in seventeenth century English history.

He is a Director of The History of Parliament Trust. With Martin Dzelzainis, he is General Editor of the Oxford edition of the works of Lord Clarendon.

Works

• The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime (Cambridge, 1989).
• The Restoration, 1660-1668 (Macmillan 1990).
• (editor, with Mark Goldie and Tim Harris), The Politics of Religion in Restoration England (Basil Blackwell, 1990).
• (with Paul Silk), ‘The House of Commons in the Twentieth Century’, in Vernon Bogdanor (ed.), The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2002).
• ‘Clarendon, Tacitism, and the Civil Wars of Europe’, in Paulina Kewes (ed.), The Uses of History in Early Modern England (Huntington Library Quarterly vol. 36 (2005)).
• (editor), Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. The History of the Rebellion: A New Selection (Oxford University Press, 2009).
• (editor), Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth (Oxford University Press, 2009).
• ‘The House of Commons, 1660-1707’ and ‘The House of Commons since 1949’, in Clyve Jones (ed.), A Short History of Parliament (Boydell and Brewer, 2009).
• (editor, with Ruth Paley and Beverly Adams, Robin Eagles and Charles Littleton) Honour, Interest and Power: An Illustrated History of the House of Lords, 1660-1715 (Boydell and Brewer 2010).
• (editor), Speakers and the Speakership (a volume of essays published as Parliamentary History, 29, 1 (2010).