Death of King Eadwig of the English
Eadwig died on October 1st, 959, still in his teens, in circumstances which remain unknown.
England
Guns, Gales & God: Elizabeth I’s ‘Merchant Navy’
Ian Friel argues that popular ideas of the nature of Elizabethan seapower are distorted by concentration on big names and major events. Elizabethan England’s emergence on to the world stage owed much more to merchant ships and common seamen than we might think.
The Chief Business: the Spanish Armada, 1588
Patrick Williams provides us with the results of the latest research on the Armada
Puissance and Poverty: Henry VIII and the Conquest of France
John Matusiak pricks the imperial pretension of the monarch who came to the throne 500 years ago
Henry VII: A Source-Based Question and Answer
Robert Hughes provides an Examiner's Commentary
Tsar Nicholas II and family visit the Isle of Wight
Tsar Nicholas II and his family arrived on the Isle of Wight on August 2nd, 1909, during the week of the Cowes Regatta.
An Anglo-Welsh truce renewed
On August 1st, 1259, the English renewed a truce which recognised Llywelyn ap Gruffydd as Prince of Wales.
The Peasants’ Revolt, 1381
In 1381 England witnessed a ‘summer of blood’ as the lower orders flexed their muscle. Dan Jones tells the story of one of medieval England’s most dramatic yet curiously neglected events.
John Evelyn and London Air
The air of London in the seventeenth century was polluted by clouds of sea-coal smoke against which Evelyn proposed some drastic remedies. By Steven R. Smith
Death of St Anselm
The life of a most pious Christian saint, who died on April 21st, 1109.