Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2022), xii + 302 pp.
England’s Islands in a Sea of Troubles (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2020), xii + 410 pp.
Gypsies: An English History (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2018), xv + 411pp. (plus paperback 2020)
Charles I and the People of England (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2015), x + 447 pp. (plus paperback 2018)
Saltpeter, the Mother of Gunpowder (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2013) xii + 237 pp.
Dangerous Talk: Scandalous, Seditious and Treasonable Speech in Pre-Modern England (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2010) xiv + 374 pp. (plus paperback 2012)
England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640-1642 (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2006, paperback 2008) xiv + 446 pp.Lin
Gunpowder Plots (with Brenda Buchanan, David Cannadine, Justin Champion, Pauline Croft, Antonia Fraser, and Mike Jay. Penguin: London, 2005) ix + 188 pp.
Society and Culture in Early Modern England (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2003) xii + 344 pp.
Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2000); paperback edition republished as Agnes Bowker’s Cat: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England (Oxford University Press, 2001) xi + 351 pp.
Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England (Oxford U. Press: Oxford and New York, 1997, paperback 1999) xv + 641 pp. Winner of the 1998 John Ben Snow Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies, and the 1999 Philip Schaff Prize of the American Society for Church History.
Religion and Society in Early Modern England: A Sourcebook (with Lori Anne Ferrell, Routledge: London and New York, 1996; revised and expanded edn., 2005) x + 254 pp.
Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: London; University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1989; paperback, Sutton Publishers, 2004) xiv + 271 pp.
Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York, 1987; hard cover and paperback, reissued 2007) xiii + 324 pp.
Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York, 1980; paperback 2006) x + 246 pp.
Education in Tudor and Stuart England (Edward Arnold: London, 1975. and St Martin’s Press: New York, 1975), ix + 141 pp.
