Trevor-Roper's work is always a challenge to the reviewer; it is brilliant, bitty, and bitchy, and what it all adds up to is difficult to say. His.
109 months ago

By courtesy of Holbein the bloated Henry VIII of middle age is familiar to us all, tight-mouthed and pig-eyed, so obese that it needed machinery to haul.
109 months ago

JP Kenyon describes how the childlessness of the Queen, and the conversion of James, Duke of York, to Roman Catholicism, produced a febrile state of opinion.
71 months ago

This year I picked/packed a better holiday game than holiday book. Although J.P. Kenyon definitely knows his onions (hi…
68 months ago

JP Kenyon describes how the Exclusion movement of 1679-81 revealed a widespread frustration among the Parliamentary classes, their distrust of Charles II, and...
71 months ago

Graham Seel reassesses the career of Oliver Cromwell's predecessor as Parliamentary Commander in the 1640s, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex.
71 months ago

The real Queen Anne was ill, overweight, and living in a state of constant grief.
27 months ago

We have a lot to thank the rebellious William Tyndale for… even if it's just being able to read this article in our native tongue,...
1 month ago

The military leader, statesman, writer and orator who led Britain to victory in the Second World War goes under the non-judgmental gaze of...
2 months ago

From the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, millions of Africans and Native Americans were enslaved and traded by European settlers...
81 months ago