Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditiona...

Henry VI is the youngest monarch ever to have ascended the English throne and the only English king to have been acknowledged by the French as righ...

Owners of estates and titles in the peerages of England, Scotland and Ireland were more, rather than less, likely than ordinary people to experienc...

Henry VI (1422-61), a man 'more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things', was the third, and least successful, Lan...

For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth...

Having succeeded in establishing themselves in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, in the early 16th century Spain and Portugal became the first...

The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish the colony of Caledonia on the inhospitable isthmus of Panama in the late seventeenth century...

Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reali...

This abridgment of Tryntje Helfferich's acclaimed 2009 anthology The Thirty Years War features an expanded General Introduction and annotation desi...

The arrival of English settlers in the American Southeast in 1670 brought the British and the Native Americans into contact both with foreign peopl...

Evidence of the foulness and cruelty of the greatest catastrophe ever to hit London is still being unearthed under the streets of the capital today...

This is the first exploration of how early modern republican and contemporary radical thought connect with and complement each other. Studies of th...

A highly illustrated history of the Spanish conquest of Mexico from 1519 to 1521, an epic clash of civilisations that saw the destruction of the Az...

This book looks at the life, activities and achievements of William, 1st Baron Sandys, Knight of the Garter. It is the story of a Hampshire man who...

The extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New ...

'Compelling... A real pleasure to read.' - BBC History MagazineIn 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Co...

For thousands of years bloodlines have been held as virtually unassailable credentials for leadership, with supreme political power perceived as a ...

In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIIIs children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the Tudor succession again reared its head. The que...

In 129 articles and three volumes, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture provides a compendium of the best available scholarship o...

An important new perspective on this critical intellectual and religious community, and on the conflicted nature of religious change at the time. ...

Follow the epic 5,000-year story of warfare - from the earliest battles to the War on Terror - with this guided tour of every major conflict.Combin...