C.V. Wedgwood

C.V. Wedgwood analyses the life, death, and influence of Thomas Wentworth, first earl of Strafford.

C.V. Wedgwood assesses the impact of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 1869-1969

C.V. Wedgwood recounts the circumstances the Earl of Arundel’s Embassy to Germany in 1636 as recounted in William Crowne’s Diary, the Earl’s letters and other contemporary sources.

With his “great and majestic deportment and comely presence Cromwell himself was fully equal to his new dignities as Lord Protector. Not so, writes C.V. Wedgwood, all the members of his household; his wife was accused of squalid parsimony, and his younger daughters of undue frivolity.

C.V. Wedgwood on the the links between the Stuart monarchy and its German relatives preceding, and throughout, the Civil War period. 

Charles I had ‘the authority to plan and initiate a policy, but he had not the power to enforce it.’

Painter of genius, gifted courtier and much-travelled man of the world, Rubens reached England in 1629, charged with the delicate task of furthering an entente between the Spanish government and Great Britain. C.V. Wedgwood shows how he enjoyed the conversation of his youthful host, whose fine aesthetic taste he shared, but shrewdly judged the weakness of King Charles I’s diplomacy.

C.V. Wedgwood challenges the accepted view of Charles I's fated minister, Thomas Wentworth.