Paul Slack

Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France; & The English Urban Renaissance

Two new works, reviewed by Paul Slack, on urban history in England and France

Published February 1 1990

Suffolk and the Tudors

Politics and Religion in an English County 1500-1600

Published June 30 1987

Poverty in Elizabethan England

Published October 1 1984

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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.