England

Jeffrey Richards looks at a stage where Victorian theatre attained its apogee

Cultural cataclysm or merely a modification of an Anglo-Saxon status quo? Antonia Gransden looks at views, past and present, of the Norman conquest.

Charles Boxer examines the impact of 1688 on Anglo-Dutch relationship with nations east of Suez.

Why did Monmouth fail and William of Orange succeed? Robin Clifton investigates the tale of two rebellions.

J Mordaunt Crook examines the history of a Gothic church in West London.

In May of 1588, Spain's great Armada set sail, bent on the invasion and conquest of Elizabethan England. Simon Adams re-examines the strategic considerations that underpinned the actions of both England and Spain before and after the Armada.

Iain McCalman discusses how politically motivated was the blackguarding by low life of high society in the Regency period.

Tim Tatton-Brown reviews the picture of one of Anglo-Saxon England's best-known saints built up at a major exhibition in Canterbury for the millennium of his death.

Timothy Curtis and J.A. Sharpe delve into the country's criminal past.

Kevin Sharpe reassesses the role that ideology, rhetoric and intellectual discussion played in the upheavals of seventeenth-century England.