Portolan Charts
Richard Pflederer evaluates a vital tool of the age of discovery.
Medieval
The Search for John Tresilian, Master Smith to Edward IV
Jane Geddes investigates the remarkable ironwork of the gates of the tomb of Edward IV, and considers what they can tell us about 15th-century craft and culture.
The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought
Janet L. Nelson reviews the joint winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year award.
Henry VIII's Early Foreign Policy, 1509-29
Jez Ross takes issue with the traditional view that sees the early foreign policy of the second Tudor monarch as a costly failure.
Innovation and Design in Tudor and Stuart Britain
John Styles marks the opening of the new British Galleries at the V&A with a look at influences and innovations during a dynamic period of design history.
Child’s Play in Medieval England
Phillipe Ariès once argued that childhood did not exist in the Middle Ages. The survival of toys and depictions of games in medieval manuscripts prove otherwise.
The Private Life of Henry VIII
In our Film in Context series, Greg Walker explores the wider messages of Alexander Korda’s historical classic, in terms of the opposition to Appeasement and the mood of 1933.
The Tudor Palace at Somerset House
Duncan Wilson looks at the history of the Strand site.
The Rebellion of Earl Godwin
September 8th, 1051
Robert of Normandy Invades England
Robert Curthose invaded England on July 21st, 1101.