June 12, 2019
Professor Houlbrooke’s look at the marriage of Charles and Elizabeth Forth (c. 1582-1593) and its unhappy breakdown and aftermath offers an intriguing insight into the politics of gender, family, social… READ MORE
May 9, 2019
We are delighted to publish this enthralling history of imprisonment. It may not be the cheeriest subject, but prisons are an inescapable (pun intended, thank you) fact of life. How… READ MORE
April 26, 2019
It seems that borders in one place or another are constantly in the news these days: they were a primary concern for many Brexiteers; the reinstatement of an internal Irish… READ MORE
April 24, 2019
Dr Liam Peter Temple’s new book, the latest in our Studies in Modern British Religious History series, traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and… READ MORE
April 19, 2019
As Red Joan, the adaptation of Jennie Rooney’s bestseller, reaches the big screen it’s a good time to look back at the roots of the story, the life of Melita… READ MORE
April 11, 2019
The Irish Catholic Confederates nearly toppled the English administration of Ireland during the Nine Years’ War (1594-1603). For much of the war, the Irish had the upper-hand and defeating them… READ MORE
March 28, 2019
While Women’s History Month is a relatively new development, women have of course been active participants in history all along. These three titles from Boydell Press share stories of women… READ MORE
March 1, 2019
Dr Joanna Wharton’s new book looks at the writings and lives of five very different women – Anne Barbauld, Honora Edgeworth, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton and Maria Edgeworth – whose… READ MORE
February 21, 2019
Reputed to be the richest earl in Scotland, George Keith, fifth Earl Marischal, is an outstanding example of long-term successful Protestant Lordship in a Scotland reeling from the consequences of… READ MORE
February 12, 2019
Leonie James explains how the accounts of William Laud’s Lambeth Palace household, edited and analysed in full for the first time, reveal much about this controversial figure that we have… READ MORE
Exploring the Medieval Armoury