Early Modern

As Movember begins, we’ve come to the end of Stoptober, the NHS-backed drive towards helping individuals to quit smoking, and this seems a good time to take a historical look at the relationship between the

Today is the 500th anniversary of the bloody Battle of Flodden. On 9 September 1513, in a field in northern England, thousands of men, including King James IV of Scotland and many of his nobles,

I’ve spent a lot of time in Florence over the past few years, and I’m increasingly tired with the city’s old-school approach to its culture and history. Florence abounds with the images and stories of

With the recent birth of the royal baby, British history has been very much in the news, with particular attention paid to the history behind the child’s names. This is popular history at its most

Mary Beard recently posted on this blog advocating a greater place for the specialist historian in writing and presenting historical documentaries. Nowhere is her point more pronounced than in relation to under-represented periods of history.

The Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul in Sheffield is undergoing a massive restoration as part of the 2014 Gateway Project. When the floor near the Shrewsbury Chapel was lifted to install new