'War,' wrote Cardinal Richelieu, 'is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict...
This compelling new account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the 'old monster'...
Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher's son, a man of letters and the Church, a di...
When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman in her mid-twenties named Elizab...
Much has been written about Charles I's reign, about the brutal civil war into which his pursuit ...
In 1517, a certain Dr Beale, rector of St Mary Spitall in London, had roused the capital's mob by...
This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and supersti...
Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuar...