England

Following the publication of The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, Defoe was accused of seditious libel and put in the pillory on the last three days of July 1703.

The Nine Days Queen was pronounced monarch on July 10th, 1553.

Sheila O’Connell describes one of the key events in the British Museum’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

The founder of Methodism was born on 17 June 1703.

Susan Doran looks at what it meant to be a female monarch in a male world and how the Queen responded to the challenges.

O.H. Creighton examines the many and varied reasons behind the siting of Norman castles, and considers their decisive effect on the cultural landscape of Britain.

Martyn Bennett examines how the terminology we use about the great conflict of the mid-seventeenth century reflects and reinforces the interpretations we make.

Lord Harmsworth tells how an accident of birth resulted in his running Dr Johnson’s House in London.

John Walton looks at the hidden problems of crowd safety off the pitch in England in the first half of the twentieth century.

Mark Rathbone examines the varied reputation of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.