Early Modern
Traditionally, the Early Modern period covers the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries and we have kept to this tradition. The range includes podcasts, articles and publications by academics and specialists from across the UK and the world. Covered here are items on the small details of history as well as the big trends. The political ideas that helped to create the world of today from enlightenment, through Thomas Paine to revolution are addressed in this section, along with the economic and cultural impact they had. It is also a period in which we see the beginnings of what might be termed globalisation: is the trans-Atlantic slave trade, British, European, or World history? Actually it’s all of them; therefore we have a number of resources here that explore that dark history. Read more
Britain & Ireland
- Joan Vaux: a remarkable Tudor lady
- Tudor queens: power, identity and gender
- Elizabeth I: ‘less than a woman’?
- Film: The ladies-in-waiting who served the six wives of Henry VIII
- After the revolution: did Cromwell, Washington and Bonaparte betray revolutionary principles?
- A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley
Europe
- Secular acts and sacred practices in the Italian Renaissance church interior
- Robespierre: a reluctant terrorist?
- The throne and the fairy tellers
- The Duchy of Courland and a Baltic colonial venture across the ocean
- History Abridged: The City of Alexandria
- What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?