Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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...

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...