Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The Great Fire of London, in September 1666, is one of those events forever etched in the collective psyche. It is on the national curriculum and i...

This classic work is a distillation of the knowledge, intuition and wisdom of one of history's greatest military commanders. Napoleon's success wa...

Warfare between the clans of the Highlands in the late Middle Ages determined the course of history in this region of Scotland, and Chris Peers's g...

Through colourful illustrations and accounts of actual sieges in every chapter, you'll discover how armies from medieval times up to the English Ci...

When John Maitland accepted the office of Secretary of State to James VI of Scotland in 1584, he accepted the challenge of three of the most extrao...

'To err is human'. As a material and mechanical process, early printing made no exception to this general rule. Against the conventional wisdom of ...

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

Discusses the reactions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers of Irish history to the unprecedented turbulence of the age. Ireland and the...

Following on from Foundation, Tudors is the second volume in Peter Ackroyd's astonishing series, The History of England.Rich in detail and atmosphe...

The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryates five-month tour of Western Europe culminated in Coryats Crudities, one of the strangest trav...

Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016This is an OCR endorsed resourceBuild strong subjec...

An academic but accessible study of espionage and its impact, this is the first in a series of studies in early modern European history edited by l...