Two recent books – This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England by Nandini Das and A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England by Lauren Working – put 16th- and 17th-century England on the map.
Elizabeth I’s brief illness made the question of the succession top priority for William Cecil and the Privy Council.
Henry VIII’s break with Rome was a watershed moment for England and for Christendom. Did the papacy have itself to blame?
Whether as ‘Gloriana’ or ‘Good Queen Bess’ Elizabeth I is one of England’s most iconic monarchs, but did her gender shape her reign?
‘What’s past is prologue’ Shakespeare wrote – but so little is known of his own. There are plenty of theories, each as implausible as the next.
In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary people.
A male heir might have saved Queen Mary’s reign, and changed the shape of global Catholicism for good.
A new book for the new year is an old British custom, but an old book can be even better.
William Strickland died on 8 December 1598. He was said to have introduced the turkey to England, but the truth followed him to his grave.
As rude rhymes and rumours threatened reputations, the Elizabethan government attempted to regulate barbed language.
