How different might the first years of the English Reformation look if we try to view them forwards rather than backwards, remembering that the first generation of converts to reform were not early ‘Protestants,’ but late medieval Catholic Christians?
Watch how London developed over the last 2000 years
June 3, 2014 by
This new digital animation showing the development of London from its Roman beginnings, in 43AD, to the present day.
Early Modern England – Politics
February 1, 2013 by
Andrew Bretz, who teaches English theatre and history at the University of Guelph and Wilfrid Laurier University, created a series of videos for his undergraduate student in 2012.
Turncoats and Renegadoes: Treachery and Traitors during the English Civil Wars
January 4, 2013 by
The practice does much to illuminate 17th-century perceptions of honour whilst the justifications employed by the turncoats themselves reveal how they sought to defend their reputations with their contemporaries or for posterity.
The History of English in Ten Minutes
December 26, 2012 by
Where did the phrase ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts?
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I
September 3, 2012 by
I am going to be talking about portraits of Queen Elizabeth. I have selected six that were painted over the course of her career to give you an idea of how she looked at various points of her career.
St. Paul's Cathedral at 300
September 1, 2012 by
2011 is the 300th anniversary of the completion of Christopher Wren’s Cathedral. This coincides with the completion of an historic £40 million programme of cleaning and repair, in which the building has been comprehensively restored inside and out.
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
August 24, 2012 by
Beginning with the development of dictionaries in Early Modern England, Winchester discusses the project that would emerge that would attempt to detail every written word in the English language.
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