Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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 ...

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...