Celebrity in 18th-Century London
Stella Tillyard asks what fame meant to individuals and the wider public of Georgian England, and considers how much this has in common with today’s celebrity culture.
England
The Battle of St Albans, 1455
The Battle of St Albans is now seen to mark the start of the Wars of the Roses. Was it the violent conclusion of one political crisis, rather than the beginning of another?
Piety and Chivalry: St George's Chapel Windsor
Nigel Saul looks at a building which embodied much of England’s religious and political life in the later Middle Ages, and which staged the blessing of the Prince of Wales’s marriage on April 9th 2005.
Vagabond!
Mark Rathbone assesses the effectiveness of measures taken in Tudor England to meet the problems of poverty and vagrancy.
Henry VII and the Shaping of the Tudor State
Sean Cunningham highlights the importance of 'rule by recognisance' in the reign of the first Tudor monarch.
Anne of Cleves, Queen of England
Retha Warnicke uncovers the real reason for Henry VIII's divorce from his fourth wife.
Death of Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth died on January 25th, 1855, aged eighty-four.
Re-Trying the Case for the 'Good Duke'
John Matusiak provides a post-revisionist perspective on Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset.
The Legacy of Henry Plantagenet
Nicholas Vincent celebrates the founder of the Plantagenet dynasty.
Answering AS-Level Questions on the Henrician Reformation
John Matusiak explains how to tackle typical questions successfully.