Gary’s research interests centre on the social, intellectual, cultural and political history of early modern Britain, and include an interest in political and print cultures during the English civil wars, revolution and commonwealth; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historical consciousness, scholarship and writing; the history of institutions, information-gathering and surveillance; and the discourses and practices of peace and peace-making in seventeenth-century Britain. He has longstanding interests in historical, social and memory theory and concepts of time and change.