Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

John Morton (c. 14201500) was one of the most important men in the land from the Wars of the Roses to the start of the Tudor dynasty. Yet he has be...

The first major biography of Henry VIII least favourite wife - but the one who outlived them all. 'I like her not!' was the verdict of Henry VIII o...

As a youth, Henry VIII was a magnificent specimen of manhood, and in age a gargantuan wreck, but even in his prime he was never the 'ladies man' wh...

The reports and despatches of Eustace Chapuys, Spanish Ambassador to Henry VIIIs court from 1529 to 1545, have been instrumental in shaping our mod...

Recent scholarship on slavery and politics between 1776 and 1840 has wholly revised historians'' understanding of the problem of slavery in America...

Love's Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourte...

The War for Mexico's West examines a dramatic, complex episode in the early history of New Spain that stands as an instructive counterpoint to the ...

The Gunpowder Plot is perhaps the most famous and well-documented event in British Early Modern history. This means the story can be told through o...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated SahagÚns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated SahagÚns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

Brereton's journal is a book made up of letters from the English Civil War (1642-1646). A Parliamentary general, Sir William was engaged in the ...

Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid lif...

The quest for the exotic became an obsession for Renaissance princes and collectors, as markets in Lisbon and Seville were flooded by the mid 16th ...

*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deb...

Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same.These were the words uttered by the seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey...

History of Universities XXXIV/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian...