Two recent books – This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England by Nandini Das and A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England by Lauren Working – put 16th- and 17th-century England on the map.
The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren looks to the 15th century for the birth of the press.
Is Orkney Scandinavian or Scottish? Having passed from the former to the latter during the Middle Ages, for centuries the Danish Crown sought to take the islands back.
The cultural politics of papal Rome.
Were humanist free-thinkers the engineers of magic’s decline?
Peter Marshall asks how diligently Wolsey served his Church.
Peter Marshall explains how a chance reference in an old local history book led him to reconstruct the story of a 17th-century church scandal, and its afterlife in literature, culture and politics.
Peter Marshall considers the past impact and present influence of Marxist models to the history of Europe's encounters with other continents.
