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On Saturday, 29 May 1660, the diarist John Evelyn wrote: “I stood in the Strand, and beheld it, and blessed God: and all this without one drop of blood, and by that very army...
Few events have contributed more powerfully to England’s sense of identity as a sovereign Protestantnation than the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. But for that, England...
When Elizabeth I succeeded to the throne in November 1558, perhaps the most difficult and sensitive problem that she had to address was the question of England’s religion. ...
Of all the changes associated with the English Reformation, probably none affected the nation’s landscape and built environment more profoundly than the dissolution of the...
This article was originally published August 2023. The coronavirus pandemic inevitably prompts thoughts of previous pandemics that have afflicted this country. In terms of the...
The end of the Middle Ages? The Battle of Bosworth Field, on Saturday, 22 August 1485, has often been taken as marking not only the end of the Wars of the Roses but also the...