Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The story of the Princes in the Tower is well known: the grim but dramatic events of 1483, when the twelve-year-old Edward Plantagenet was taken in...

Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women. After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-b...

In September 1665, plague was inadvertently transported from London to Eyam in Derbyshire on a consignment of cloth. This small country village sub...

A groundbreaking study of the fascinating yet largely unknown world of books in the first great age of print, 14501600  Selected by New York Times ...

Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (15271609) was one of the most...

A major new biography of Huldrych Zwinglithe warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation   Huldrych Zwingli (14841531) was the most significa...

A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade  Winner of the Associa...

A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England - soon followed by Scotland and Ireland...

A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England - soon followed by Scotland and Ireland...

Returning to England to try to reclaim his throne, King Charles II was defeated at the Battle of Worcester - but the battle to save his own life ha...

Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the Tudor period, though he also stra...

This is NOT just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is the his...

Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk, lived a remarkable life spanning eighty years and the reigns of six kings. Amongst his descendants are his gran...

Richard III is England's most controversial king. Forever associated with the murder of his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, he divides the natio...

On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is often regarded...

This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious vi...

James II was Britains last Catholic king. The spectacular collapse of his regime in 1688 and the seizure of his throne by his nephew William of Ora...

From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born. When William, Duke of Norman...

No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III.He was loathed in his own time for ...