Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

In 1957, the University of Chicago Press asked acclaimed best-selling historian Daniel J. Boorstin to oversee a series of accessible yet authoritat...

The first extensive examination of Robert Barnes, his career, misconstrued theology and wide-ranging influence beyond England. By the time of his ...

The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook.If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exc...

George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction....

John Aubrey (162697) was one of the best-connected scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. Immersed in ...

Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious warsyet it also witnessed the remarkable flower...

Equipped with a commission from Henry VIII, John Leland began to record the contents of English monastic libraries in 1533 before they were dispers...

A bold, insightful biography of Martin Luther[A] richly detailed portrait.D.G. Hart, Wall Street JournalEven-handed and engaging. . . . A nuanced p...

In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with ...

On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops...

Contributes to a better understanding not only of ecclesiastical power and politics but of life in an élite household in seventeenth-century Britai...

Between Friends offers the first extended close reading of the most famous epistolary dialogue of the Renaissance, the letters exchanged from 1513 ...

Jane Whorwood (1612 - 1684) was one of Charles I's closest confidantes. The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and the wife of an Oxfordshire...

The history of how the Africa Trade formed the backbone of the British Empire. The British Empire carried more Africans into bondage across the Ame...

The destruction caused by the English Civil Wars was widespread and devastating. Towns, villages, churches, and country houses were destroyed, and ...

Art thou in need of hearty ale and a bed safe from brigands as you ply the highways and byways of Britain? Then Ye Olde Good Inn Guide is for you ...

Seventeen-year-old Henry VIII was a youngling, he cares for nothing but girls and hunting. Over the years, this didnt change much. Henry was consid...

Taking a fresh look at the Scottish involvement in the English Civil War, this fascinating take on a popular period of history focuses on how the S...

Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than Englands first Stuart. Yet, as this biography demonstrates, the modern ...

Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of ...

In the early hours of 10 February 1567 a large explosion ripped through the Provosts lodgings at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scot...

Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the rulin...

This engaging and practical travel guide takes you on a journey through the best of Tudor London, to sites built and associated with this fascinati...

The century spanning the wars of the roses and the reigns of the Tudor kings was a volatile time of battle and bloodshed, execution and unexpected ...