Stuart

Blake Pinnell explains how an ancient tradition got out of hand and drained the public purse of 18th-century England.

Hated by many, mistrusted by all: a fair verdict on Randal MacDonnell the man who wheeled and dealed across Scotland and Ireland in the troubled era of Civil War and Commonwealth? Jane Ohlmeyer puts the man in his geographical and cultural context and re-evaluates his career and motives.

Richard Cavendish looks at the wide-ranging interests of The Georgian Group

Richard Cavendish looks at all things Stuart in the month when Charles I lost his head.

Keith M. Brown questions the extent to which humanism and Renaissance courtliness had weaned the Stuart aristocracy from random acts of violence and taking the law into their own hands.

Linda Pollock questions the assumption that younger brothers in the 16th and 17th-centuries were automatically stifled and frustrated, impotent in the family pecking order.

Julian Mann observes excavations of the Stuart garden at Kirby Hall.

John Morrill argues that recent scholarship is re-shaping our view of the fortunes of monarchy and Parliament between 1660 and 1688.

Robert Beddard chronicles the indiscriminate orgy of looting and destruction unleashed in the vacuum between James' flight and William's arrival in the capital.

Why did Monmouth fail and William of Orange succeed? Robin Clifton investigates the tale of two rebellions.