Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Beginning on the bloody battlefield of Bosworth, when Henry Tudor seized the crown of England and ended the Wars of the Roses, The Tudors contains ...

This book closely analyses the rise and fall of Louis XIV's marine insurance institutions in Paris, which were central to the French monarchy's eff...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A lasting work of social history THE TIMES ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A lasting work of social history THE TIMES ...

Standing directly below the royal family in the social hierarchy of Stuart England, the aristocracy naturally dominated national and local life bet...

Authoritative, surprising, evocative and original, Shakespeare: staging the world offers a completely new approach to one of the most exceptional c...

A stunning exhibition catalogue showing the splendours of one of the greatest rulers of the world, Indias emperor Akbar (1542-1605) Akbar The Great...

The bubonic plague epidemic which struck England in 1665-6 was responsible for the deaths of almost a third of London's population. Its sheer scale...

A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian.The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth cent...

At the beginning of his diary, on 1st January 1660, Samuel Pepys noted that Lawson lies still in the River. A mere two weeks before, amid rioting i...

From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of...