Without the economic muscle of the Netherlands' largest city, William III would never have been able to stage Britain's 'Glorious Revolution' or urge European war against Louis XIV. But his relationship with Amsterdam's burghers was far from smooth, as Elizabeth Edwards outlines here.
Richard Cavendish looks at an exhibition at the Museum of London on the diversity of the capital.
Anthony Pollard explains how the rivalry of two great Northern families contributed to civil war in fifteenth-century England.
Oriental dealers Eskenazi and their new London outlet
With a hey nonny-no - but the courtship of Elizabethan lads and lasses was not quite as buccolic as the madrigals suggest, as Eric Carlson explains.
What made medieval monks laugh? Edward Coleman looks at humour, holy men and the sub-texts of comment in 12th-century England.
Peter Atkins finds that though we might be considering toll roads, the Victorians were glad to get rid of them.
Robert Thorne discusses 19th-century London on show in Germany
Colin Richmond analyses the part played by the written (and spoken) word in shoring up popular allegiances to the rival dynasties
'Tis to be feared this threatening storm will not be allayed without some showers... of blood' – Chris Durston chronicles the rumours and fears of an England on the brink of fratricidal conflict.
