A Red Indian Visit to 18th Century England
Received by the King, blessed by the Primate and huzza’d by Etonians, Chief Tomochich's party was a model good-will mission. By T.R. Reese.
England
Horace Walpole: The Gossip as Historian
Ian Christie balances the skill and wit of Walpole as a writer against his shortcomings as a historian.
The Opening of Anglo-Russian Relations
Christopher Lloyd asserts that the first contacts between Elizabethan England and the Russia of Ivan the Terrible mark the true birth of the British Empire.
New Light on the Gunpowder Plot
John Izon describes details of the case against Fawkes' co-conspirators.
The Beginnings of the English Newspaper
Graham Dukes traces the birth of the press to the English Civil War period.
King Charles's Nephew and the English Throne: The Elector Palatine and the Civil War
C.V. Wedgwood on the the links between the Stuart monarchy and its German relatives preceding, and throughout, the Civil War period.
The Politics of Wine in 18th-century England
After the upheavals of 1688, England’s shifting social order needed new ways to define itself. A taste for fine claret became one such marker of wealth and power, as Charles Ludington explains.
The Forest Saga
Long a beautiful feature of the English landscape, William Seymour explains how forests have played an important part in the economic history of Great Britain.
Benjamin Hoadly
H.T. Dickinson introduces a Bishop who held many liberal views, and was much disliked by his brethren.
St George’s Chapel, 1348-1975
A.K.B Evans recounts the story behind the centre for the Knights of the Garter at Windsor, which was built by Edward IV in 1475.