England

Will Saunders asks whether one of the ‘villains’ of the English Reformation deserves his reputation.

Christine Riding looks at William Hogarth’s particular view of the street life of 18th-century London, and at what his interpretation presents in comparison with the artistic offerings of his Continental competitors.

R. E. Foster surveys the changing interpretations and introduces the key facts.

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of King James I's creation and proclamation of a union flag, on April 12th, 1606.

The great Victorian engineer was born on 9th April, 1806.

R. E. Foster reconsiders the origins of the Church Settlement of 1559.

Richard Cavendish marks the founding of a famous Victorian penitentiary, on March 20th, 1806.

Judith Richards pinpoints the debts of Elizabeth I to her older half-sister.

The bride was fifteen and the groom twenty-two, when they married on December 1st, 1655.

A Tudor portrait in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, once believed to be Mary I when princess, has recently been relabelled ‘Possibly Lady Jane Grey’ as the result of research by Ph.D student J. Stephan Edwards. Here he explains how the iconography in the painting prompted the discovery.