Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher's son, a man of letters and the Church, a di...

Henry V of England, the princely hero of Shakespeare's play, who successfully defeated the French...

This compelling new account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the 'old monster'...

Henry V of England, the princely hero of Shakespeare's play, who successfully defeated the French...

Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuar...

This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and supersti...

An intimate and evocative account of an absolute ruler’s relentless descent into impotence, isola...

A new book on the Thirty Years War, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the conflict

A joint biography of Tudor England’s martyrs whose executions triggered a wave of bloody repression

A hugely topical re-appraisal of Tudor England’s place in Europe and Europeans’ place in Tudor En...

Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher's son, a man of letters and the Church, a di...

The unmatched scale of destruction of the Thirty Years War, claiming more lives than even each of...