The Marlborough Mound in its garden setting
October 7, 2022
In 1548, the castle was granted to Edward duke of Somerset, Protector of the young Edward VI. He was executed in 1552, but his heirs retained the estates, and it… READ MORE
Category: Early Modern and Modern History
Common Ground: The History of Britain’s Untamed Spaces
October 5, 2022
Why write a book about the history of uninhabited spaces, the mountains, moorlands, wetlands and heaths that lay beyond the fields, in between settlements? Many of these open spaces were… READ MORE
The Marlborough Mound and its missing castle
September 28, 2022
Within months of the Battle of Hastings, the Norman armies came to Marlborough, and – though we have no positive physical evidence to prove this, they created a rough fortification… READ MORE
Law, Peace, and Justice in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Introducing the New Series
September 16, 2022
Invocations of peace and justice pervaded the enforcement of law and order in medieval and early modern Europe. As one example, a judge speaking to a Yorkshire jury in 1620… READ MORE
The Marlborough Mound – a major new prehistoric monument
September 6, 2022
Marlborough Mound is one of the least visible of the great monuments of England, and almost unknown except to local historians and specialists. It stands in the middle of Marlborough… READ MORE
Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century | Blog 2/2
June 8, 2022
When Pirates became media sensations In April 1828, the pirate attack on the brig Morning Star became the first truly global pirate story. Of course, back then there was no… READ MORE
Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century | Blog 1/2
June 7, 2022
A woman’s bargain with pirates Anne Logie remained calm as she faced the young French pirate Victor St Cyr Barbazan. He and the other pirates of the Defensor de Pedro… READ MORE
The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh
May 23, 2022
The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, national and… READ MORE
The National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant, 1660-1696
May 12, 2022
Popular memory of the Scottish Covenanters, to the extent they are remembered at all, tends to feature them as either intolerant, violent religious fanatics, or focuses on their persecution during… READ MORE
Great Power Competition and the Path to Democracy
May 10, 2022
Zarina Burkadze’s new book, published by the University of Rochester in their Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe series, is a powerfully insightful study of the challenges faced by… READ MORE
A Finzi Celebration