Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The Welsh habit of revolt against the English is an old-standing madness from the sayings of the prophet Merlin they still hope to recover their l...

We dont really consider Henry VIII to have had friends. Subjects, cronies, dutiful wives and ministers of state, perhaps, but not friends. In truth...

The King is dead: long live the King. In 1509, Henry VII was succeeded by his son Henry VIII, second monarch of the house of Tudor. But this is not...

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Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular concep...

The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro. 'Painstakin...

Fighting the Antichrist analyzes the discourse against Catholicism from the breach from Rome in 1534 until the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Cultur...

The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain is planned as one work to be published in three interlinking volumes (titles/publication dates detailed below...

Henry VIII had the most controversial love life of the Tudor period, and he remains Britains most famous king because of it. His pursuit of a male ...

Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. Eng...

The garden created by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at Kenilworth Castle in the early 1570s was one of the wonders of Elizabethan England. It i...

Richard III and Henry Tudor's legendary battle: one that changed the course of English history.On the morning of 22 August 1485, in fields several ...

Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first bride, has become an icon: the betrayed wife, the revered Queen, the devoted mother, a woman callously cast...

The Renaissance is best known as an age of artists Michelangelo, da Vinci, Titian and Holbein but it is also the age of the noble patrons who cha...

Henry VIIs father died in prison before he was born. Henry VIII was too fat to walk down the stairs. Mary Queen of Scots was almost killed by an e...

Our nation is a treasury of outstanding palaces and fine merchant houses from this rich period in our past. The Tudor period is one that feels fami...

What constituted a secret or a scandal in times gone by? This entertaining title in this new series gives an overview of the times and attitudes to...

The close links between forgery and criticism throughout historyIn Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the ...

The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democ...

James VII and II is one of the least studied monarchs of Scotland, and has previously mostly been studied from an English perspective or as the mud...

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The Tudor Period is regarded by many as Englands golden age, and still casts a spell over the public imagination. Whether it is the glittering rule...