Anthony Goodman

Border Ways and Border Warfare

Anthony Goodman looks into the Scottish border culture.

A retrospective portrait commissioned in c.1593 by Sir Edward Hoby for Queenborough Castle, Kent, probably modelled on Gaunt's tomb effigy

John of Gaunt: Portugal's Kingmaker

John of Gaunt's dynastic ambitions coincided with the urgent need of the Portuguese Crown for foreign support to secure its sovereign independence - the catalyst for a royal marriage and England's oldest alliance.