Books

• Atherton I, Blake M, Sargent A, Tomkins A (Eds.). 2022. Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham. (21 vols.). Staffordshire Record Society.
• ATHERTON IJ and Carr, I.. 2007. 'The Civil War in Staffordshire in the Spring of 1646: Sir William Brereton's Letter Book, April-May 1646'. Staffordshire Record Society.
• ATHERTON IJ and Sanders, J.. 2006. The 1630s: Interdisciplinary Essays on Culture and Politics in the Caroline Era. Manchester University Press.

Journal Articles

• Atherton I. Recollection in the Republics: Memories of the British Civil Wars in England, 1649-1659. Cultural and Social History, 1-2. doi>
• Atherton I. 2023. The Forced Loan and Men Fit to Serve as Soldiers, 1523. Midland History, 118-119, vol. 48(1). doi>
• Atherton I. 2022. ‘John Duncalf the man that did rott both hands & leggs’: Chronicle of a Staffordshire Death Retold in the Long Eighteenth Century. Midland History, 249-273, vol. 47(3). doi> link> full text>
• Atherton I. 2022. Church and People in Interregnum Britain. Midland History, 1-2. link> doi> link> full text>
• Atherton I and Blake M. 2021. Two sets of mid-Tudor churchwardens' accounts: Yoxall and Lichfield St Michael. Transactions of the Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, vol. 52. link> full text>
• Ellis N and Atherton IJ. 2009. Griffith Higgs’s Account of the Sieges of and Iconoclasm at Lichfield Cathedral in 1643. Midland History, 233-245, vol. 34(2). doi>
• Atherton IJ. 2008. Royalist Finances in the English Civil War: The Case of Lichfield Garrison, 1643-5. Midland History, 43-67, vol. 33(1). doi>
• Atherton IJ. 2013. Commemorating Conflict and the Ancient British Past in Augustan Britain. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 377-393, vol. 36(3). doi> link>
• Atherton IJ. 2012. Review of Charles Carlton, This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles 1482-1746 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011). Reviews in History, Article review 1256.
• Atherton IJ and Morgan P. 2011. The battlefield war memorial: Commemoration and the battlefield site from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 289-204, vol. 4(3). doi>
• ATHERTON IJ. 2010. Cathedrals, Laudianism, and the British Churches. Historical Journal, 895-918, vol. 53(4). doi> link>
• ATHERTON I. 2010. Staffordshire Studies. Staffordshire Studies, 1-118, vol. 19.
• ATHERTON I. 2009. Review of Gloucester Cathedral Chapter Act Book 1616–1687. Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, 66-67, vol. 34(121).
• Atherton I. 2008. Review of E. Gruber von Arni, Hospital care and the British standing army, 1660-1714. Journal of British Studies, 679-680, vol. 47(3). doi>
• ATHERTON I. 2008. Review of C.S. Knighton, ed., Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1609–1642'. Archives, 187-188, vol. 33(119).
• Atherton IJ. 2007. Staffordshire Studies. Staffordshire Studies, 1-105, vol. 18.
• Atherton IJ. 2007. The Accounts of the Royalist Garrison of Lichfield Close, 1643-5. Staffordshire Studies, 63-96, vol. 18.
• ATHERTON I. 2006. Review of A Bibliography of Westminster Abbey: A Guide to the Literature of Westminster Abbey, Westminster School and St Margaret’s Church Published between 1571 and 2000. Archives: The Journal of The British Records Association, 175-177, vol. 31(115).
• Atherton IJ and Studd JRS. 2006. Staffordshire Studies. Staffordshire Studies, 1-84, vol. 17.
• ATHERTON IJ and Como, D.. 2005. 'The Burning of Edward Wightman: Puritanism, Prelacy and the Politics of Heresy in Early Modern England'. English Historical Review, 1215-1250, vol. 120(489). doi>
• Atherton I. 2005. Review of J. Broadway, R. Cust & S.K. Roberts, eds. A Calendar of the Docquets of Lord Keeper Coventry, 1625-1640. Midland History, 148-149, vol. 30.
• Atherton IJ and Studd JRS. 2005. Staffordshire Stduies. Staffordshire Studies, 1-127, vol. 16.
• Atherton I and Studd JR. 2005. Staffordshire Studies. Staffordshire Studies, 1-108, vol. 15.
• Atherton I. 2003. Review of M. Stoyle, West Britons: Cornish identities and the early modern British state. ALBION, 277-278, vol. 35(2). doi>
• Atherton I. 2003. Review of P. Hayter, ed., Kings Sutton churchwardens' accounts 1636-1700 (Banbury Historical Society 27, 2001). Midland History, 157-158, vol. 28(2003).
• Atherton I. 2003. Review of The politics of court scandal in early modern England: news culture and the Overbury affair, 1603-1660 by A Bellany. American Historical Review. doi>
• Atherton I. 2002. Reviewer of: 'Brailes and the Survey of 1607', A Tennant in Warwickshire History, 1, 5 (2001). Midland History, 210, vol. 27.
• Atherton I and Studd JR. 2002. Staffordshire Studies. Staffordshire Studies, 1-106, vol. 14.
• Atherton I and Cooksley M. 2002. Staffordshire and the Irish revolt of 1641. Staffordshire Studies.
• Atherton I and Studd JR. 2001. Staffordshire Studies. Staffordshire Studies, 1-161, vol. 13.
• Atherton I. 1999. Review of J.H. Baker, Monuments of endlesse labours: English canonists and their work, 1300-1900. ENGL HIST REV, 1353-1354, vol. 114(459). doi>
• Atherton I. 1999. Review of K. Fincham, ed., Visitation articles and injunctions of the early Stuart Church, vol. II: 1625-1642. ENGL HIST REV, 981-982, vol. 114(458). doi>
• Atherton I. 1999. Review of A. Warmington, Civil War, interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire, 1640-1672. ALBION, 96-97, vol. 31(1). doi>
• Atherton I. 1998. Review of D. Dymond, ed., The register of Thetford Priory, vol 1, 1472-1517, vol 2, 1518-1540. ENGL HIST REV, 1298, vol. 113(454).

Chapters

• Atherton I, Blake M, Sargent A, Tomkins A. 2022. Introduction. In Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham. Atherton I, Blake M, Sargent A, Tomkins A (Eds.). (21 vols.). Staffordshire Record Society.
• Atherton I, Blake M, Sargent A, Tomkins A. 2022. Introduction. In Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham. Atherton I, Blake M, Sargent A, Tomkins A (Eds.). (21 vols.). Staffordshire Record Society.
• Atherton I. 2022. ‘“There Never was a Viler Wretch in a Place of Dignity”: Thomas Wood as Dean and Bishop of Lichfield and the Divisions of the Later Stuart Church’. In Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham. Atherton I, Blake M, Sargent A, Tomkins A (Eds.). (21 vols.). Staffordshire Record Society.
• Atherton I. 2022. ‘“There Never was a Viler Wretch in a Place of Dignity”: Thomas Wood as Dean and Bishop of Lichfield and the Divisions of the Later Stuart Church’. In Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham. Atherton I, Blake M, Sargent A, Tomkins A (Eds.). (21 vols.). Staffordshire Record Society.
• Atherton I. 2021. Manchester Collegiate Church, 1558–1660. In Manchester Cathedral A history of the Collegiate Church and Cathedral, 1421 to the present. Gregory J (Ed.). (13 vols.). Manchester: Manchester University Press. doi> link>
• Atherton I. 2020. Visiting England’s Cathedrals from the Reformation to the Early Nineteenth Century. In Pilgrimage and England’s Cathedrals: Past, Present, and Future. Dyas D and Jenkins J (Eds.). (15 vols.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi> link>
• Atherton I. 2020. Adapting Cathedrals to the Reformations in Britain: A Story in Five Buildings. In Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland, 1550-1689. Barnwell P and Cooper T (Eds.). (10 vols.). Donington: Shaun Tyas.
• Atherton IJ. 2018. An Apology of the Church of England's Cathedrals. In Defending the Faith: John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church. Ranson A, Gazal A, Bastow S (Eds.). (15 vols.). University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. doi>
• Atherton I. 2018. Battlefields, burials and the English Civil Wars. link> doi> full text>
• Atherton IJ. 2018. Commemorating the English Revolution: Local Deliverance and Thanksgiving. In Remembering Early Modern Revolutions: England, North America, France and Haiti. Vallance E (Ed.). (11 vols.). Abingdon: Routledge. doi> link>
• Atherton IJ. 2017. Cathedrals. In The Oxford History of Anglicanism Reformation and Identity c. 1520-1662. (vol. 1). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi> link>
• Atherton IJ. 2014. Remembering (and forgetting) Fairfax's Battlefields. In England's Fortress: New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax. Hopper A and Major P (Eds.). (10 vols.). Farnham: Ashgate. link> doi> link> full text>
• Atherton IJ. 2011. 'Cathedrals and the British Revolution'. In The Experience of Revolution in Stuart Britain and Ireland. Braddick MJ and Smith DL (Eds.). Cambridge University Press.
• Atherton IJ. 2011. 'Religions: Post-Reformation Christian Denominations' & 'Religions: Observance and Attendance, 1676-2001'. In An Historical Atlas of Staffordshire. Phillips ADM and Phillips CB (Eds.). Manchester: Manchester Univ Press.
• ATHERTON I. 2010. 'Bishops of Ely, 1559-1667'. In Ely: Bishops and Diocese, 1109-2009. Meadows P (Ed.). Boydell Press.
• Atherton IJ. 2009. The Press and Popular Political Opinion. In A Companion to Stuart Britain. Coward B (Ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.
• Atherton I, Tomkins A, McGrath E. 2007. 'Broken in War, Stricken With Old Age, Reduced to Helplessness'?: Cathedral Almsmen in Early Modern England'. In Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and Welfare c. 1550-1950. Borsay A and Shapely P (Eds.). Ashgate.
• Atherton IJ. 2007. Barton-under-Needwood. In The Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Volume X, Tutbury and Needwood Forest. Tringham NJ (Ed.). woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
• Sanders J and Atherton IJ. 2006. Introducing The 1630s: Questions of Parliaments, Peace and Pressure Points. In The 1630s: Interdisciplinary Essays on Culture and Politics in the Caroline Era. Atherton I and Sanders J (Eds.). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Atherton I. 2004. Education. In A History of the County of Stafford, Volume ix: Burton-upon-Trent (The Victoria History of the Counties of England). Tringham NJ (Ed.). Institute of Historical Research/Boydell and Brewer, London/Woodbridge.
• Atherton I. 2004. Edward Reynolds (1599-1676), Bishop of Norwich: vol.46. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. Family Scudamore (\fIper\fP 1500-1820), gentry: vol.49. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. Foulke Robartes (1578/9-1650), Church of England clergyman: vol.47. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. General History: The Period 1530-1700. In A history of the county of Stafford, Volume ix: Burton-upon-Trent (The Victoria County History of the Counties of England). Tringham NJ (Ed.). Institute of Historical Research/Boydell and Brewer, London/Woodbridge.
• Atherton I. 2004. George Coke (1570-1646), Bishop of Hereford: vol.12. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. Henry Rogers (1583/4-1658), Church of Egland clergyman and religious controversialist. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. John Hassall (\fIbap.\fP 1575,\fId.\fP 1654), dean of Norwich: vol.27. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. John Salisbury (1501/2-1573), Bishop of Sodor and Man: vol.49. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. John Scudamore, first Viscount Sucadmore (1601-1671), diplomat and politician: vol.49. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. Protestant Nonconformity. In A History of the County of Stafford, Volume ix: Burton-upon-Trent (The Victoria History of the Counties of England). Tringham NJ (Ed.). Institute of Historical Research/Boydell and Brewer, London/Woodbridge.
• Atherton I. 2004. Robert Sidney, Second Earl of Leicester (1595-1677), diplomat and landowner: vol.50. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. Roman Catholicism. In A History of the County of Stafford, Volume ix: Burton-upon-Trent (The Victoria History of the Counties of England). Tringham NJ (Ed.). Institute of Historical Research/Boydell and Brewer, London/Woodbridge.
• Atherton I. 2004. Sir Barnabas Scudamore (\fIbap.\fP 1609,\fId.\fP 1651/2), royalist army officer: vol.49. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. Sir Walter Pye (\fIbap.\fP 1571,\fId.\fP 1635), lawyer: vol.45. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. The Established Church. In A History of the County of Stafford, Volume ix: Burton-upon-Trent (The Victoria History of the Counties of England). Tringham NJ (Ed.).
• Atherton I. 2004. Theophilus Field (\fIbap\fP 1575,\fId.\fP 1636), Bishop of Hereford: vol.19. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. Thomas Hodges (\fIc.\fP 1600-1672), dean of Hereford: vol.27. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. William Baker (1668-1732), Bishop of Norwich: vol.3. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Atherton I. 2004. William Rugg [\fIname in religion\fP William Repps] (\fId.\fP 1550), Bishop of Norwich: vol.48. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew HCG and Harrison B (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• ATHERTON IJ. 2003. 'The Dean and Chapter, Reformation to Restoration: 1541-1660'. In A History of Ely Cathedral. Meadows P and Ramsay N (Eds.). Boydell.
• Atherton I. 2003. The press and popular political opinion. In A Companion to Stuart Britain. Coward B (Ed.). Blackwell & The Historical Association, Oxford, Melbourne and Berlin.

Other

• ATHERTON I. 2010. Cathedrals.
• ATHERTON I. 2010. Collegiate Churches.