Mining Museums Face Rock Bottom
Helen Davidson on how mining history is in jeopardy.
England
Mary Tudor and the Re-Catholicisation of England
Has our image of Henry VIII's elder daughter as 'Bloody Mary', burning Protestants and unhappily married to Philip of Spain, clouded our assessment of how close she came to restoring the old religion?
Good Friends and Brothers? Francis I and Henry VIII
Glenn Richardson profiles the French king's relationship with Henry VIII and the cultural PR and diplomacy that went with it.
Turner and Shakespeare's Jessica
Andrew Wilton discusses a picture that shows the great landscape painter in a role removed from his stereotype, and which tells us much about the changing mores and aspirations of 'Middlemarch' England.
Amsterdam and William III
Without the economic muscle of the Netherlands' largest city, William III would never have been able to stage Britain's 'Glorious Revolution' or urge European war against Louis XIV. But his relationship with Amsterdam's burghers was far from smooth, as Elizabeth Edwards outlines here.
Maybe its Because I'm a Londoner
Richard Cavendish looks at an exhibition at the Museum of London on the diversity of the capital.
Percies, Nevilles and the Wars of the Roses
Anthony Pollard explains how the rivalry of two great Northern families contributed to civil war in fifteenth-century England.
London's New Eastern Promise
Oriental dealers Eskenazi and their new London outlet
Courtship in Tudor England
With a hey nonny-no - but the courtship of Elizabethan lads and lasses was not quite as buccolic as the madrigals suggest, as Eric Carlson explains.
Nasty Habits - Satire and the Medieval Monk
What made medieval monks laugh? Edward Coleman looks at humour, holy men and the sub-texts of comment in 12th-century England.