England

Early modern cancer experiments such as that undertaken by English surgeon Samuel Smith privileged the senses, but the effects could be fatal.

Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding goes where few historians dare: south of the river.

The founding of London’s first university was controversial, but how much truth was there to claims of its students’ radical politics and rowdy ways? 

The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c.1031-1083: Embodying Conquest by Laura L. Gathagan traces the material legacy of the Conqueror’s consort.

In early modern England the time and date was often an informal matter, which had the potential to pose problems.

In Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s Spy, Dennis Sewell asks whether George Downing was the ‘biggest scoundrel in Stuart England’?

Henry VIII’s break with Rome was a watershed moment for England and for Christendom. Did the papacy have itself to blame?

The ancestor of the London Gazette was launched on 16 November 1665, surviving its bitter rival to become the oldest newspaper in the English-speaking world still in print.

As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by.