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  1. 4 days ago · Stephen (1092 or 1096 – 25 October 1154), often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154. He was Count of Boulogne jure uxoris from 1125 until 1147 and Duke of Normandy from 1135 until 1144. His reign was marked by the Anarchy, a civil war with his cousin and rival, the Empress Matilda ...

  2. 4 days ago · Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN: 9780199659838; 416pp.; Price: £54.00. As Professor Gunn observes in his foreword, this book has been a long time coming: first mooted in fact in 1985 (a very suitable date). This has had two significant consequences which I shall discuss ...

  3. 4 days ago · Signature. Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) [a] was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union on 1 May 1707, which merged the kingdoms of Scotland and England. Before this, she was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702. Anne was born during the reign of her uncle King Charles II.

    • 8 March 1702 – 1 August 1714
    • Anne Hyde
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  5. 4 days ago · Henry VI, King of England 1421–1471: Margaret Beaufort 1443–1509: Edward IV, King of England 1442–1483: Edmund, Earl of Rutland 1443–1460: George, Duke of Clarence 1449–1478: Richard III, King of England 1452–1485: Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk 1444–c.1503: House of Tudor: Edward, Prince of Wales 1453–1471: Henry VII, King of ...

  6. 4 days ago · 2. Prince George of Wales. As the King’s grandson and the late Queen’s oldest great-grandchild, Prince George is set to be the ruling monarch once his father no longer sits on the throne. When ...

  7. 5 days ago · Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660–1857. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN: 9780521619127; 296pp.; Price: £15.99. This study connects the experience of domestic abuse to the historical development of family life from the Restoration until the passage of the Divorce Act 1857. A critical mass of examples drawn ...

  8. 5 days ago · Price: £55.00. Glenn Richardson’s latest contribution to early modern Anglo-French relations comes in the form of this edited volume covering nearly three centuries of contact between England and France from 1420 to 1700. The Contending Kingdoms is essentially the proceedings of a Society for Court Studies conference which took place in ...