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A look at how Georgians kept house: The Housekeeping Book of Susanna Whatman 1776 - 1800.

Good Housekeeping: The Georgian Edition

A look at how Georgians kept house: The Housekeeping Book of Susanna Whatman 1776 – 1800.

It's the most famous play ever staged, but how well do you know William Shakespeare's Hamlet? Can you spot the Hamlet quote amongst the other literary greats? Will you get a perfect score? Is it to be, or not to be?

Spot the Shakespeare: Hamlet quotes

It’s the most famous play ever staged, but how well do you know William Shakespeare’s Hamlet? Can you spot the Hamlet quote amongst the other literary greats? Will you get a perfect score? Is it to be, or not to be?

26 questions covering more than two thousand years of English history!

The Ultimate History Of England Quiz

26 questions covering more than two thousand years of English history!

Nine questions to discover your sweet historical love!

Who Is Your Historically Significant Other?

Nine questions to discover your sweet historical love!

If you were living and breathing in the 1500's, who would you be?

Which Tudor Are You?

If you were living and breathing in the 1500’s, who would you be?

Great works of literature can touch us to our very core beings, especially the heroine's at the root of the novel. Take this quiz to see which classic literary heroine you are!

Which Classic Literary Heroine Are You?

Great works of literature can touch us to our very core beings, especially the heroine’s at the root of the novel. Take this quiz to see which classic literary heroine you are!

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The glory attending my death will far surpass all I could enjoy or conceive in life - King Charles I

0January 3, 2015

The War of Words: Eikon Basilike and the Martyrdom of Charles I

On 14 November, 1569, Thomas Percy, seventh Earl of Northumberland, and Charles Neville, sixth earl of Westmoreland, called on all Catholics to take up arms in defence of their true faith as they occupied the Northern city of Durham.

0January 3, 2015

The Role of Religion in the Politics of the Northern Rebellion of 1569

This thesis examines the early part of Mary I's reign, focusing on her marriage to Philip of Habsburg and the marginalisation of their co-monarchy in Tudor historiography.

0October 4, 2014

The marriage of Philip of Habsburg and Mary Tudor and anti-Spanish sentiment in England : political economies and culture, 1553-1557

Across the seventeenth century medical self-help manuals noted that aromatic substances were a suitable remedy for female barrenness.

0August 26, 2014

Female barrenness, bodily access and aromatic treatments in seventeenth-century England

The expansion of English rule into Ireland during the reign of the Tudors has generated a tremendous amount of historical writing. Within this subject, several schools of thought have emerged. One has examined the English invasion in light of the Tudors themselves.

Never the Twain Shall Part: A Comparison and Analysis of Irish and English Marriage Laws Following the English Conquest of Ireland

There were outbreaks of the sweating sickness in England in 1485, 1502, 1507, 1528 and 1551.

The English Sweating Sickness

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