The Georgian Group
Richard Cavendish looks at the wide-ranging interests of The Georgian Group
Stuart
Charles I Societies
Richard Cavendish looks at all things Stuart in the month when Charles I lost his head.
Hudson’s Bay Company: The Lords of the Northern Forest
The incorporation of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670 reveals much about the personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.
Gentlemen & Thugs in 17th-Century Britain
Keith M. Brown questions the extent to which humanism and Renaissance courtliness had weaned the Stuart aristocracy from random acts of violence and taking the law into their own hands.
Younger Sons in Tudor and Stuart England
Linda Pollock questions the assumption that younger brothers in the 16th and 17th-centuries were automatically stifled and frustrated, impotent in the family pecking order.
Stuart Flower Power
Julian Mann observes excavations of the Stuart garden at Kirby Hall.
The Later Stuarts - A Glorious Restoration?
John Morrill argues that recent scholarship is re-shaping our view of the fortunes of monarchy and Parliament between 1660 and 1688.
Anti-Popery and the London Mob, 1688
Robert Beddard chronicles the indiscriminate orgy of looting and destruction unleashed in the vacuum between James' flight and William's arrival in the capital.
James II's Two Rebellions
Why did Monmouth fail and William of Orange succeed? Robin Clifton investigates the tale of two rebellions.
Crime in Tudor and Stuart England
Timothy Curtis and J.A. Sharpe delve into the country's criminal past.