Charles II: The Reality Behind the Merry Monarchy
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.
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'.
The young prince hid from Roundhead soldiers on September 6th, 1651.
Edward Corp looks at the life of a monarch in exile.