Tag: English history

The Real Tudor England

The Real Tudor England

Lucy Wooding— There was no such thing as ‘Tudor England’ until long after the last Tudor was dead.1 This epoch was created in retrospect, pieced together out of countless memories… READ MORE

Orphans in Eighteenth-Century London

Orphans in Eighteenth-Century London

Stella Tillyard— On a bleak spring evening in 1741 a crowd gathered in a dark, narrow London street. At its edge well-to-do City merchants on their way westward through Hatton… READ MORE

Æthelred, the Unready?

Æthelred, the Unready?

Levi Roach— Æthelred initially identified himself and his counsellors as the guilty parties and set about remedying his ways, restoring church lands, promoting new figures, fostering reform and making amends…. READ MORE

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