England

During the first half of the thirteenth century, Matthew Paris recorded in words and drawings the events of world history. W.N. Bryant tells his story.

Mollie Gillen describes how Queen Victoria’s father was a bibliophile as well as a military commander and a colonial governor.

In 1569, Richard Grafton, an enterprising London printer completed the first attempt to provide a critical history of England. Martin Holmes describes the process.

Herman Ramm unearths the medieval roots of a Jorvik landmark.

William Seymour takes us on a visit to the New Forest, stretching from Southampton Water to the Wiltshire Avon, and the favourite hunting ground of many English monarchs.

A.L. Rowse analyses heraldry as an essential element in the social history of England in the later middle ages and early modern period.

John Fines introduces Thorpe, a follower of Wyclif for thirty years, who was tried for heresy in 1407.

In the early eighteenth century, writes Robert Halsband, the marriage of an aristocratic young widow and a Drury Lane singer caused violent surprise among her friends.

Elizabeth Linscott describes how English churches and cathedrals, from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, abound in memorial effigies to the distinguished dead.

J.B. Whitwell describes how a series of excavations since the Second World War has revealed much important detail about Lindum Colonia.