He founded perhaps the most famous dynasty in history: the Tudors. Yet, in 1485 when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III to become King Henry VII, he possessed the most anaemic claim to the throne since William the Conqueror. In defiance of the norms of medieval rule, he...
Historical Research, vol. xci, no. 251 Articles: Simon de Montfort’s sheriffs, 1264–5. Richard Cassidy Counties without borders? Religious politics, kinship networks and the formation of Catholic communities. James E. Kelly ‘Round-head Knaves’: the Ballad of...
Troubling agency: agency and charity in early nineteenth-century London. Megan Clare Webber (This article is a revised version of a paper given at the British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar at the Institute of Historical Research on 16 March 2016. It...
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Telling a tale with the names changed: contemporary comparisons of the Rye House Plot to the 1696 Assassination Plot. Beth Branscome When a Jacobite plot to assassinate William III was discovered in 1696, supporters of William and his whig-dominated ministry pointed...
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