England

Even when she was imprisoned, Mary, Queen of Scots carefully curated her Catholic image.

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.

Huguenot Networks: Truth and Secrecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe by Penny Roberts reveals the clandestine cross-border contacts of Huguenot spies, diplomats, and scholars.

Irked by both his character and his tendency towards corruption, Jonathan Swift spent years ruthlessly satirising Isaac Newton.

The sinking of the White Ship was a disaster for England’s King Henry I, but it was also felt deeply by his subjects.

If all the world’s a stage, argues Indira Ghose in A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England, then on the stage is where we see change most vividly.

Elizabeth I’s brief illness made the question of the succession top priority for William Cecil and the Privy Council.

Anglo-Saxon noblewomen took shelter from the invading Normans in nunneries. Did that make them brides of Christ?

Although the reception was not always warm, the English East India Company made several attempts to trade in Japan in the 17th century.