Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The scandalous true story of Mary Boleyn, infamous sister of Anne, and mistress of Henry VIII. Mary Boleyn, 'the infamous other Boleyn girl', began...

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

The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, p...

The seventh wife of Henry VIII

Every child has heard of Guy Fawkes and will most likely have watched a 'guy' being burnt on a bonfire and fireworks lighting up the night sky on B...

War, wrote Cardinal Richelieu, is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. Yet the prelates mournful observation scarcely ...

Much has been written about Charles Is reign, about the brutal civil war into which his pursuit of unfettered power plunged the realm, and about th...

In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the th...

Autumn 1536. Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and still awaits his longed for male heir. Disaffec...

The Battle of Flodden in 1513 was the largest battle ever to take place between England and Scotland. James IV himself led an army of 30,000 men ov...

The Stuart era encompasses the whole of the seventeenth century and beyond, with seven monarchs and a civil war that changed Britain forever. It wa...

When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman in her mid-twenties named Elizabeth Barton, widely revered as a visionary and prop...

The many influences of the past on our diet make the concept of British food very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans ea...

Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butchers son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle yet, t...

The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time whe...

Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butchers son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle yet, t...

William Paulet is the exemplar of the successful Tudor courtier. For an astonishing 46 years he served at the courts of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary...

JANE WHORWOOD (1612-84) was one of Charles I''s closest confidantes. The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and the wife of an Oxfordshire sq...