Major-General Thomas Harrison

‘Farr’s book is an extremely enjoyable read. More importantly it has shone a bright light on a person that deserves far more research. Also he has shown the Fifth Monarchists to be an important part of the English Revolution … The book deserves a wide audience and would be a comfortable read for a general reader as well as the more academic one. Hopefully it will be placed on university reading lists in the future.’ A Trumpet of Sedition ‘… the first full-length scholarly biography of Harrison ever to appear … a very welcome contribution to our understanding of the dramatis personae of the English Revolution.’ Renaissance Quarterly ’From beginning to end, David Farr has pursued his subject with immense energy and a clear-sighted historical consciousness … Farr’s political biography is simply a triumph.’ History ’David Farr’s new biography of Thomas Harrison is a brave and sympathetic attempt to re-envisage the Major-General for a fresh generation of students and professional academics.’ Seventeenth Century

Dr David Farr is Deputy Head Academic of Norwich School. He is author of full length studies of other Cromwellian military-religious radicals, Henry Ireton and John Lambert, as well as general studies of Britain 1625-1689 and numerous articles on various aspects of the English Revolution in a range of academic journals.