The Wars of the Three Kingdoms reviewed Anne Laurence, The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (Open University, 2007) Anne Laurence is an historian with a long and distinguished career. Originally an undergraduate at York University, she undertook her doctoral research at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Christopher Hill. Her thesis on ‘Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 1642-1651’ was subsequently published. Since then, she has won recognition for her work on the lives of early modern women and, more recently, on women investors in the early eighteenth-century financial revolution. [1] Her long-term commitment to the Open University, where she now holds a chair, led to the composition of this work for its A200 course, Exploring History: Medieval to Modern, 1400-1900: it is primarily a teaching text carefully integrated with that course’s accompanying Anthology, Visual Sources Book, Course Guide and DVD. [2] ...