Who was Henry VII?

He fought Richard III to the death in 1485 after 14 years in exile and a tenuous claim to the throne. He was aware that five of the last nine English kings were killed so they could be replaced. Yet he brought stability to the realm, economic solvency to the...

Pollard Prize 2009

Congratulations to the winner of the 2009 Pollard Prize, Sebastian Prange, for his paper ‘”Measuring by the bushell”: reweighing the Indian Ocean pepper trade’. This year’s runner up was Katharina Rietzler, with ‘Before the cultural...

Historical Research – New articles published online

Three new articles have been published online in our Early View issue on the Wiley-Blackwell/Historical Research website:’Unitarians and the contradictions of liberal Protestantism in Victorian Britain: the Free Christian Union, 1867–70′. MICHAEL...

Historical Research – New articles published online

Four new articles have been published online in our Early View issue on the Wiley-Blackwell/Historical Research website:’A spy on the payroll? William Herle and the mid Elizabethan polity’. ROBYN ADAMS’Edward IV’s Brief Treatise and the treaty...