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From the makers of BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE MAGAZINE THE TURBULENT CENTURY THAT RESHAPED A NATION  COLLECTOR’S EDITION  THE LI ...

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4 No ho ho: Puritans didn’t just ban Christmas – they also clamped down on sports, games, even maypoles William of Orange routed ...

GETTY IMAGES, ALAMY, BRIDGEMAN IMAGES 6 Timeline A whistlestop tour through 100 years of Stuart rule 114 Subscribe Keen to learn ...

STUART T 11- September Oliver Cromwell leads troops across the Irish sea to subdue “the rebellious Irish”. They storm the town o ...

T IMELINE 2-5 September The Great Fire of London rages through the city, destroying St Paul’s Cathedral and around 13,000 homes. ...

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When Elizabeth I died, so too did the House of Tudor. But, as Tracy Borman explains, the optimism surrounding the accession of t ...

Adam de Colone’s oil painting of King James VI and I. Initially the English were excited about having a king. However, his popul ...

walke was ever circular” and he had a disconcerting habit of “fidling about his codpiece”. Upon his arrival at the court in Lond ...

ABOVE: King James interrogates Guy Fawkes on his role in the gunpowder plot to blow up parliament RIGHT: A group of ‘witches’ ar ...

An engraving of the frontispiece to the first edition of the King James Bible. Published in 1611, the Bible was soon to become t ...

King James VI and I seen here in a portrait by Paul van Somer regarded the Bible as a useful tactical concession to critics of ...

Worms in 1526. Tyndale left some Old Testament translations in manuscript and though he was burned as a heretic in the Low Coun ...

Pauline Croft is professor of early modern history at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her books include King James AKG IMA ...

Bacon was a prominent and influential figure in both Tudor and Stuart times. Richard Serjeantson reveals the many disciplines in ...

GETTY IMAGES X Bacon pursued a lifelong political career. He first sat in Parliament in 1581 and remained an MP until he was ele ...

O n the evening of 26 October 1605, Lord Monteagle received a startling letter. An anonymous correspondent advised the English n ...