England

Change & Continuity in 17th Century English Parliaments

David L. Smith provides an overview of parliamentary history during the 'century of revolutions'.

Edward IV c.1520, posthumous portrait from original c. 1470–75

Edward IV and the Alchemists

Jonathan Hughes looks at the significance, in alchemical terms, of this reign, and what the King himself made of alchemical prophecy.

England's Lost Houses

Giles Worsley explains why so many country houses were demolished in the last century.

The Search for John Tresilian, Master Smith to Edward IV

Jane Geddes investigates the remarkable ironwork of the gates of the tomb of Edward IV, and considers what they can tell us about 15th-century craft and culture.

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England

Retha Warnicke unravels the evidence on the rise and fall of Henry VIII's second wife.

Publication of the Hound of the Baskervilles

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case, March 25th, 1902.

Henry VIII's Early Foreign Policy, 1509-29

Jez Ross takes issue with the traditional view that sees the early foreign policy of the second Tudor monarch as a costly failure.

London - World City on Display

Curator Alex Werner marks the 25th anniversary of the Museum of London

Richard Trevithick's First Steam Carriage

The 'puffing devil', the first passenger-carrying vehicle powered by steam, made its debut on a road outside Redruth in Cornwall on December 24th, 1801.