A Golden World by Lauren Working is a glittering new history of how the Americas transformed early modern England. History books from Faber.

by Meryl Faiers, 20 April 2026Evidence of the lives of non-elite women is often fragmentary and frequently found in administrative records. The first stage of thinking about the experiences of someone...

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table. Shakespeare in the Kitchen asks what Shakespeare’s works can tell us ab...

New biochemical techniques offer unmatched insight into early modern medicine, as traces of plants, animals and even human waste have been sampled from pages.

GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES INTRODUCTION By Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, and Amanda E. Herbert, Editors The early modern globalization of food and medicine was also a globalization of recipes. A...

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Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire

Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.

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In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor from Oxford World's Classics.

Learn about archival research in the Environmental Humanities in a workshop at The National Archives.

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Students are falling out of love with English, and can we really blame them, asks subject specialist Barbara Bleiman

The prolific and versatile Jacobean playwright tasked with 'improving' some of Shakespeare

In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of The Tempest from Oxford World's Classics.

In 1822, Sir Robert Peel was appointed Home Secretary. He would become closely associated with penal reform in Britain. He is remembered especially for the formation of the Metropolitan London Police ...

The Huguenots were Protestants who fled France and Wallonia (southern Belgium) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century due to religious persecution during the European Wars of Religion. After the...