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Richard Cust reassesses the thinking behind the biggest military blunder of the English Civil War, Charles I’s decision to fight the New Model Army at Naseby in June 1645.

Tim Harris explores the political spin, intolerance and repression that underlay Charles II’s relaxed image, and which led him into a deep crisis in 1678-81 yet also enabled him to survive it.

Pauline Croft analyses the causes and traces the consequences of a momentous Treaty.

Joshua Shotton defends a much-maligned statesman.

Simon Thurley explains why the first Stuarts kept the great Tudor palace virtually intact.

Conrad Russell looks at the perks and pitfalls of public office-holding in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

Richard Cavendish describes the coronation of Queen Anne on April 23rd, 1702.

John Styles marks the opening of the new British Galleries at the V&A with a look at influences and innovations during a dynamic period of design history.

Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, reflects on some of the issues raised by the exhibition 'Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II'.

Edward Corp looks at the life of a monarch in exile.