16th Century history
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Bosworth and other battles: the illustrious career of Sir Gilbert Talbot (d.1517) of Grafton, KG
Dr Simon Payling of our Commons 1461-1504 project explores the career of the early Tudor figure Sir Gilbert Talbot, who…
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Power struggles and group dynamics in the House of Lords, 1584-5
At the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on Tuesday 3 February, Dr Paul Hunneyball of the History of Parliament,…
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Descended from a giant: the Worsleys of Hovingham
The recent death of HRH the Duchess of Kent, who was married to the late queen’s cousin at York Minister…
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Reframing the political narrative, Tudor-style: the Westminster conference of 1559
The use of social media to influence political opinion has become a contentious issue in the past few years. However,…
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Parliament and the Church, c.1530-c.1630
In this blog, Dr Alex Beeton reviews a fascinating colloquium, held recently at the History of Parliament’s office in Bloomsbury…
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The 1580 Dover Straits Earthquake
On 6 April 1580, as Queen Elizabeth I was taking the air in the fields around Whitehall, south-east England experienced…
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Hugh Oldham, bishop of Exeter, ‘hath more poison in that grete fowle bely of hys then all the Bysshoppes in Englond’: scandalum magnatum in early-sixteenth century England
For the first article of 2025, Dr Simon Payling of our Commons 1461-1504 Section, explores the use of a unique…
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When tinsel was only for the rich: dressing to impress in early modern England
Wondering what to wear to a Christmas or New Year party? Deciding how to look one’s best can be a…
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The Last of the Cromwells
The current BBC production of Wolf Hall: the Mirror and the Light, the last of Hilary Mantel’s novels charting the…
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Richard Bancroft and the English mission to Emden, 1600
Richard Bancroft is well known to students of late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. A relentless enemy to nonconformist puritans, Bancroft…
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Poison and the Tudor nobility: the De La Warr peerage case
With House of Lords membership once again on the political agenda, Dr Ben Coates of our Lords 1558-1603 section explores…
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Winchester v. Winchester: rivalries and election-rigging in 1560s Hampshire
Whatever the outcome of a modern election, the process of voting is predictable, reliable, and well-understood. However, in the sixteenth…