England

Christopher Haigh outlines the historiography of the reign of the first Elizabeth.

Henry Tudor defeated and killed Richard III in battle in August 1485. That much is certain. Colin Richmond, however, wonders how the battle was fought; what prompted Yorkists to defect to the Lancastrian side; and above all, where exactly did the battle take place?

Robin Gwynn examines the arrival of Huguenot French to England in the 17th century.

What made for a good medieval king? Understanding Richard I – better known as Richard the Lionheart – is a good place to start.

David Starkey visits the Lincoln Center for a night at the opera.

Conrad Russell finds that it is easier to understand why sheer frustration may have driven Charles to fight than to understand why the English gentry might have wanted to make a revolution against him.

Rosemary Day considers Oxford and Cambridge in the Tudor and Stewart age

At the start of the reign of Charles II, government was the King's business and factions contested for the monarch's ear. The constitutional changes in later Stuart England added a new, parliamentary dimension to faction. But it did not disappear.

In the third of our series of articles on faction, Kevin Sharpe shows how, in the early 17th century, the monopoly of patronage by a court favourite distorted the pattern of politics in council, court and parliament.