Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The period spanning the 15th to the 17th centuries saw an unprecedented interest in childrearing and the family. Renaissance humanist thought val...

With an empire stretching across central Mexico, unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs seemed poised on the brink of a golden age in...

John Cannon, known to some as 'the poor man's Pepys', was the self-taught son of a Somerset farmer. Though some episodes in Cannon's life have been...

Comprises an introduction to the background of The Dialogue, written in 1594 by George Owen of Henllys, north Pembrokeshire.

This volume brings together contributions from two separate editors. The first is a collection of texts edited by Peter Clarke that evidence Cardin...

A reassessment of one of the most devastating episodes in Irish history. WINNER of the NUI Publications Prize in Irish History 2013. Mid-sevente...

Hazel Forsyth delvesin to never-before-studied primary sources to shed light on thedramatic aftermath of the disaster and reveal the very personals...

'An impressive revisionist biography' The TimesLooming out of the encroaching darkness of the February evening was London Bridge, still ornamented ...

Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire' is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German h...

Ronalds detailed and thoroughly enjoyable collection shows how it can take a visitor to appreciate what the residents are so used to, they take for...

'Highly readable, exciting and thought-provoking' - Hilary Mantel'A gem of blood-and-thunder storytelling' - Dominic SandbrookIn medieval England, ...

The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, t...

Elizabeth's Sea Dogs investigates the rise and fall of a unique group of adventurers men like Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Martin Frobisher and Wa...

The establishment of permanent embassies in fifteenth-century Italy has traditionally been regarded as the moment of transition between medieval an...

By turns irreverent, sympathetic and amusing, America Writes Its History, 1650-1850 adds to the public discourse on national identity as advance...

The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast. Yet Spanis...

This rereading of the history of American westward expansion examines the destruction of Native American cultures as a successful campaign of co...

How has unbelief come to dominate so many Western societies? The usual account invokes the advance of science and rational knowledge. Ryrie''s alt...

WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWNAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'Fabulous, timely, a marvellous achievement' Spectator'A richl...

King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - SeducersThe Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and mos...

Convent Autobiography reveals how English Catholic women wrote about themselves, their families, and their lives in a period where it was illegal t...

This groundbreaking collection explores the convergence of the spatial and digital turns through a suite of smartphone apps (Hidden Cities) that pr...

2 SEPTEMBER 1666: 350 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON In the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lan...

Step into the tumultuous age of Stuart England with Peter Ackroyd's enlightening Civil War. Beginning with James I, the first Scottish king of Engl...

The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a hosts wealth and power, provided an occasion ...

Joel Gascoyne''s Map of Cornwall, published in 1699, set new standards in county map making. He used a larger scale (nearly one inch to the mile), ...