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The aim of Charles I’s foreign policy was to restore his nephew’s lands in the Rhineland. France, he thought, was the key to success. 

The House of Lords, often in the shadow of the Commons, asserted its power during the reigns of James I and his son, Charles I.

The trial of Captain William Kidd raised uncomfortable questions for the state about the pirate’s role in the consolidation of England’s early overseas empir

Poor and small, Portugal was at the edge of late medieval Europe. But its seafarers created the age of ‘globalisation’, which continues to this day.

Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising, to explore her yo

The grim reality underlying Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness echoed the growing moral outrage over the murderous rubber trade.

Climate, disease and the relationship between them fascinated 18th-century observers on both sides of the Atlantic.

A new form of antiquarianism? Celebrating experience at the expense of analysis? Seven leading historians seek to define social history.