Thomas Blood (1618-80) was a celebrity in his own lifetime, even though this celebrity was based on infamy. A turncoat, spy and double agent, Blood is most notorious for being...
Louis XIV enjoyed visiting his fruit and vegetable gardens. Enriched with exotic plants by the numerous botanical expeditions that took place during the seventeenth century, the king's gardens were a...
Acclaimed historical biographer Linda Porter provides a vivid life of Katherine Parr revealing Henry VIII's last queen to have been a more human, complex and modern figure than has hitherto...
'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, "The Prince", published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to this day because of its electrifying...
This compelling account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the ‘old monster' and his reign. The ‘monster' displayed here is, at the very least, a...
Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus and author of the first published account of a voyage to the New World, was also the owner of one of the largest private...
Elizabeth I is perhaps England's most famous monarch. Born in 1533, the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was heir to her father's title,...
Examines the political power relations between the three kingdoms and the continent and explores the story of their development, bringing into play factors such as commercial links, migration of groups,...
'The English Civil War' is one of the most hotly contested areas of English History and John Miller is one of the experts on the period. Amid dramatic accounts of...
