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...

The pilgrimage to Mecca - the hajj - is a major aspect of the Islamic religion, yet little has been written about its history or of the conditions ...

The period spanning the 15th to the 17th centuries saw an unprecedented interest in childrearing and the family. Renaissance humanist thought val...

With an empire stretching across central Mexico, unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs seemed poised on the brink of a golden age in...

John Cannon, known to some as 'the poor man's Pepys', was the self-taught son of a Somerset farmer. Though some episodes in Cannon's life have been...

Comprises an introduction to the background of The Dialogue, written in 1594 by George Owen of Henllys, north Pembrokeshire.

This volume brings together contributions from two separate editors. The first is a collection of texts edited by Peter Clarke that evidence Cardin...

A reassessment of one of the most devastating episodes in Irish history. WINNER of the NUI Publications Prize in Irish History 2013. Mid-sevente...

Hazel Forsyth delvesin to never-before-studied primary sources to shed light on thedramatic aftermath of the disaster and reveal the very personals...

'An impressive revisionist biography' The TimesLooming out of the encroaching darkness of the February evening was London Bridge, still ornamented ...

Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire' is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German h...

Ronalds detailed and thoroughly enjoyable collection shows how it can take a visitor to appreciate what the residents are so used to, they take for...

'Highly readable, exciting and thought-provoking' - Hilary Mantel'A gem of blood-and-thunder storytelling' - Dominic SandbrookIn medieval England, ...

The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, t...

Elizabeth's Sea Dogs investigates the rise and fall of a unique group of adventurers men like Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Martin Frobisher and Wa...

The establishment of permanent embassies in fifteenth-century Italy has traditionally been regarded as the moment of transition between medieval an...