Selling the Seaside
Sun, sea, sand and ... salesmanship. Nigel Yates describes the mixture served up by English coastal resorts to lure the visitor to a cornucopia of attractions before the days of the package holiday abroad.
Sun, sea, sand and ... salesmanship. Nigel Yates describes the mixture served up by English coastal resorts to lure the visitor to a cornucopia of attractions before the days of the package holiday abroad.
John Childs surveys the remarkable career of a professional soldier who fought for six nations yet remained consistent to his church and personal principles
Roger Whiting explores sets of playing cards at the time of the Spanish Armada and the Glorious Revolution.
Edward Corp visits the 17th-century royal apartments of the Chateau Vieux.
Jonathan Israel charts the progress from commercial competition to open war and finally 'snarling alliance' of two assertive naval powers.
Rex Cathcart examines how William's brief intervention in Ireland has provided a rallying-point in ideology and iconography for Protestants to the present day.
Charles Boxer examines the impact of 1688 on Anglo-Dutch relationship with nations east of Suez.
Charles Wilson sets the scene for a special issue celebrating the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution and England's 'Dutch Connection'.
Bill Speck considers the three-cornered manoeuvrings between Anglicanism, Dissent and Catholicism that culminated in the events of 1688-89.
John Morrill argues that recent scholarship is re-shaping our view of the fortunes of monarchy and Parliament between 1660 and 1688.