Jean Wilson

The Queen’s Men and their Plays

Scott McMillin and Sally-Beth MacLeanFools and Jesters at the English CourtJohn Southworth

Published April 30 1999

The Countess’s Pillar, Westmorland

Jean Wilson recounts the fascinating tale behind the stone pillar erected by Anne Clifford, Countess of Pembroke, on a roadside in Cumbria.

Published June 30 1998

Icons of Unity

Family favourites: Jean Wilson sifts through group portraits and monuments for clues as to whether relationships were intimate or remote in early modern England.

Published May 31 1993

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.