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According to Wikipedia, Ivan Alan Roots was a British historian, known as the author of The Great Rebellion and a leading expert on Oliver Cromwell. Biography Ivan Roots was one of five sons of Frank Roots and his wife Ellen née Snashfold. He attended Maidstone Grammar School then studied at Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford he was tutored by Christopher Hill and developed an interest in the history of England in the 17th century, especially in the period 1649–1660 and the Protestant radicals known as the Diggers. After his graduation in 1941 he joined the Royal Signal Corps and served in India and Burma. He saw action in the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma in 1944 and left the army with the rank of captain.

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Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell (2003) (14)
Left-wing democracy in the English Civil War : Gerarrd Winstanley and the digger movement (1995) (11)
The Great Rebellion: 1642-1660 (1966) (10)
England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640-1642 (2010) (10)
Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1637–49 (2007) (7)
Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity (2002) (7)
Puritanism and Liberty: Being the Army Debates, 1647-9, From the Clarke Manuscripts With Supplementary Documents (2018) (6)
The Great Rebellion (2009) (6)
The Clarke Papers: Further Selections from the Papers of William Clarke (2008) (5)
Prelude to Civil War, 1642: Mr. Justice Malet and the Kentish Petitions (1980) (5)
The Rump Parliament, 1648-1653. (1975) (5)
The Restoration of Charles II (2000) (4)
Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (1991) (4)
The English Civil War (1974) (4)
Cromwell: A profile (1973) (3)
Swordsmen and Decimators — Cromwell’s Major-Generals (1970) (3)
'Into Another Mould': Aspects of the Interregnum (1998) (3)
The Committee at Stafford, 1643-1645 : the Order book of the Staffordshire County Committee (1957) (3)
John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-General, 1619–1684 (2004) (3)
Righteous Armies, Holy Cause. Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War (Book) (2003) (2)
The agrarian history of England and Wales, 1500-1640 : Book review. (1968) (2)
England without a King 1649-1660 (1985) (2)
Cromwell’s Ordinances: The Early Legislation of the Protectorate (1972) (1)
The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow. Book review. (1965) (1)
Righteous armies, holy cause. Apocalyptic imagery and the civil war. By Terrie Dopp Aamodt. Pp. x+236+15 figs. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2002. $35. 0 86554 738 6 (2003) (1)
Skerpan Elizabeth. The Rhetoric of Politics in the English Revolution, 1642–1660. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press. 1992. Pp. xii, 264. $42.50. (1993) (1)
God's Statesman: the Life and Work of John Owen, Pastor, Educator, Theologian . By Peter Toon. Pp. viii + 200. Exeter: The Paternoster Press, 1971. £2.60. (1974) (1)
Charles I's Lord Treasurer, Sir Richard Weston, Earl of Portland (1975) (0)
Why Was Charles I Executed (2010) (0)
Book Reviews: The United Colonies of New England, 1643-1690. By Harry M. Ward. (1962) (0)
Reports on the manuscrips of the Rt. Hon. Viscount De L'Isle, V.C., preserved at Penshurst Place, Kent : Book review. (1968) (0)
Review: Dryden in Revolutionary England (1992) (0)
Education in a Market Town: Horncastle, 1320–1970 (1977) (0)
Review: Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern England: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson (1996) (0)
The great Civil war. North Wales in the Civil war. Book review. (1960) (0)
The British Revolution, 1629-1660 (2006) (0)
Wales through the ages. Book review. (1961) (0)
Parliament and the Church, 1529–1960, J. P. Parry and Stephen Taylor (2001) (0)
1659: The Crisis of the Commonwealth (2006) (0)
Interest — Public, Private and Communal (1970) (0)
The Gentry and the Elizabethan state : Book review. (1978) (0)
Sir Bevill Grenvile and his Times . By John Stucley. 25 × 19 cm. Pp. xiii + 160 + 20 pls. Chichester: Phillimore, 1983. ISBN 0-85033-512-4. £15·00. (1985) (0)
Richard Cust and Ann Hughes, eds. The English Civil War. (Arnold Readers in History.) London: Arnold; dist. by St. Martin’s Press, New York, N. Y. 1997. Pp. xi, 369. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-340-63173-2. (1998) (0)
Conflicts in Tudor and Stuart England : a selection of articles from History today with an original introductory essay by Ivan Roots (1967) (0)
GENTLEMEN AND OTHERS (1962) (0)
The King's Evil (1950) (0)
English constitutional history : a select bibliography (1958) (0)
The Monmouth rising (1986) (0)
Soldiers, writers and statesmen of the English revolution. Book review. (2000) (0)
Review: Pamphlet Wars: Prose in the English Revolution (1994) (0)
Review: Pen for a Party: Dryden's Tory Propaganda in its Contexts (1996) (0)
Review: The Personal Rule of Charles I (1994) (0)
The Dissenting Tradition: essays for Leland H. Carlson . Edited by C. Robert Cole and Michael E. Moody. Pp. xxiv + 272. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1975. $13. (1977) (0)
Review: The English Bible and the English Revolution (1995) (0)
Stuart Royal Proclamations. Vol. II. Royal Proclamations of King Charles I, 1625–1646 . Edited by James F. Larkin. 24 × 16 cm. Pp. lviii + 1089. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. ISBN 0–19–822466–4. £70.00. (1984) (0)
Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate: Culture, Politics, and Institutions, by Edward Holberton (2011) (0)
Review: Milton's History of Britain (1994) (0)
Dissent and Parliamentary Politics in England, 1661–1689: a Study in the Perpetuation and Tempering of Parliamentarianism. By Douglas R. Lacey. Pp. xvi + 520. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1969. $15.00. (1971) (0)
Whitsun riot : Book review. (1964) (0)
The council in the Marches of Wales under Elizabeth I. Book review. (1960) (0)
Union or Devolution in Cromwell's Britain? (1997) (0)
Elizabethan Wales. Book review. (1963) (0)
Review: Liberty against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies (1998) (0)
Review: The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture (1998) (0)
The English Republic 1649-1660 (1985) (0)
John Winthrop. America's forgotten founding father. By Francis J. Bremer. Pp. xviii+478+16 plates. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. £25. 0 19 514913 0 (2005) (0)
VI.—THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (1968) (0)
Review: Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (1997) (0)
Commonwealth and Protectorate: The English Civil War and its aftermath (1976) (0)
Review: Marvell and Alchemy (1992) (0)
Glamorgan in early modern times. (1975) (0)
`A Wolf Held by the Ears' William Walwyn the Leveller: Ivan Roots Finds Much to Admire in a Man Reviled by the Authorities in His Own Day. (Talking Points) (2001) (0)
John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth Century England (2008) (0)

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