England

Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic by Tabitha Stanmore gives a human face to magic in medieval and early modern England.

For nine days Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess was the greatest box office phenomenon of the English Renaissance. Then a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Was Sir Thomas More born on Milk Street – and does it matter?

The people of late medieval and early modern England were almost universally numerate. Is our ability to count the thing that makes us human?

Highwaymen’s reputations plummeted in the 17th century. Once praised as heroes in the manner of Robin Hood, the media now lauded the brave bystanders who resisted them.

Remembered today as a national hero, Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, had an upbringing which spanned Essex to Ulster. He was a hybrid king to the last.

Could a text thought to be by Shakespeare’s father actually be his sister’s writing?

Following his accession, the majority of James I’s new English subjects accepted their Scottish king with ‘comforte and contentmente’. Such sentiments would not last.

A Nottinghamshire election in 1593 descended into farce, violence and, ultimately, futility.