Revealing Mary
Angela McShane Jones asks what depictions in broadsides of Mary II with her breasts exposed, tell us about 17th-century popular attitudes to royalty.
England
Lackland: The Loss of Normandy in 1204
Nick Barratt argues that Normandy’s loss in the reign of King John has had a far-reaching impact on Britain.
The Hampton Court Conference
The Hampton Court Conference opened on January 14th, 1604. The most important product of the conference was the King James Bible.
Dissent and Debauchery: Women and the English Civil War
A group of second-year students from Southampton University present the results of a collaborative research project.
The Great Storm
The week-long hurricane that struck the south of England and the English Channel on November 24th, 1703, was beyond anything in living memory.
The Early Stuarts and Hampton Court
Simon Thurley explains why the first Stuarts kept the great Tudor palace virtually intact.
Blacks in Tudor England
Marika Sherwood reveals the state of our knowledge – and ignorance – about a period of our multi-racial past.
Marriage of James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor
Richard Cavendish describes James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor's wedding on August 8th, 1503.
John Bull's Family Arises
The colourful cartoon development of British national symbols provides an acute barometer to changes in 18th- and 19th-century public opinion. By Peter Mellini and Roy. T. Matthews.
Daniel Defoe Put in the Pillory
Following the publication of The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, Defoe was accused of seditious libel and put in the pillory on the last three days of July 1703.