Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwellproviding a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in historyHuttons bo...

A detailed history of the town of Lowestoft, its society, economy, and topography. `A superbly researched study.... An excellent addition not only...

The latest set of volumes in the History of Parliament series, this is the first of the series to cover the members of the House of Lords. This mon...

Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens of notable lives from between 14...

Lieutenant Knowles served in the 7th (Royal) Fusiliers 1811-1813, seeing action in several battles, being wounded at the storming of Badajoz and at...

This book examines the stories of radical Protestant women who prophesied between the British Civil Wars and the Great Awakening. It explores how w...

In the popular imagination, English colonisation in the Americas began with the founding of Jamestown in Virginia in 1607 (which recently celebrate...

What is a witch? A woman (usually), unimaginably old, with streaming grey hair, who rides the air on her broom and devours little children. We can ...

Early Brazil presents a collection of original sources, many published for the first time in English and some never before published in any languag...

In 1711, in County Antrim, Ireland, eight women were put on trial accused of bewitching and demonically possessing young Mary Dunbar, amid an attac...

A vivid, evocative, page-turning read that leaps off the page, with a dazzling evocation of the diamond and gem trade The King's Diamond ...

Mark Greengrass's gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous changeSUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES Books of the Year 2014...

Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect grown your own environments and ensured that many households were supplied with their own fr...

The Devil was a commanding figure in Tudor and Stuart England. He played a leading role in the religious and political conflicts of the age, and in...

General William Howe was the commander-in-chief of the British forces during the early campaigns of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). How...

Major Richard Llewellyn, who fought at Quatre Bras, wrote in 1837 that, 'Had it not been so closely followed by the... victory of Waterloo, perhaps...

The letters in The Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye create a narrative across more than a century and through three generations of the Jeake famil...

Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) was the first modern voice in English poetry. His poetry holds a mirror to the secret, capricious world of Henry VIII's...

The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspira...