Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

What qualities made the Duke of Wellington a strategic genius? How did Oliver Cromwell, a gentleman farmer create an army that overthrew a king and...

Since it is the case that you are now just beginning that journey that I have for the most part as you see completed, that is, the one through mort...

In seventeenth century Europe it must have seemed that there was always a conflict somewhere. This century of battles is the inspiration for these ...

Spanning the period 1512-78, the High Cross churchwardens' accounts of Stratton, in Cornwall, are unusually complete and informative. Written mostl...

The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during the sixteenth century. This mul...

A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of  Philip II, Spains best-known kingA superbly informed narr...

Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at b...

A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of West...

Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformat...

The Mongols created the greatest landlocked empire known to history. It was an empire created and sustained by means of conquest. Initially an insi...

When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, on...

In 1552, Muscovite Russia conquered the city of Kazan on the Volga River. It was the first Orthodox Christian victory against Islam since the fall ...

Learn what went on behind closed doors in the Tudor court. Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on...

Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII. Catherine Parr was enjoying her freedom after her first two arranged marr...

Mary Tudor was the first female English sovereign - a ruling queen who was not simply the consort of the king. Yet little is known about this com...

The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen'. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her t...

The Dramatic Rise & Fall of Thomas Cromwell Thomas Cromwell, chief architect of the English Reformation, served as principal minister of Henry ...

Following the dramatic announcement that Richard III's body had been discovered, past controversies have been matched by fresh disputes. Why is Ric...

England has always been a place of queens. The earliest known lived nearly 2,000 years ago. Early queens, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, are hist...

In contrast to most of Scotland, the north-western coast and the islands beyond were a region of mixed political control as well as culture into th...

The Tudor Family is the most intriguing royal dynasty in British history. Their era took us out of the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, founded...