Stuart
Dynasty that ruled Scotland (1371-1714) and England (1603-1714), with an interregnum (1649-60). Their reign in England was troubled, as fears of absolutism helped provoke a civil war and the... read more |
Tim Harris explores the political spin, intolerance and repression that underlay Charles II’s relaxed image, and which led him into a deep crisis in 1678-81 yet also enabled him to survive it. |
Graham Goodlad examines differing interpretations of the part played by King Charles I in the outbreak of the civil war. Published in History Review, Issue: 63, 2009
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Richard Wilkinson argues against the prevailing orthodoxy. |
Jacqueline Riding examines how a 19th-century painting, created almost 150 years after the Jacobite defeat at Culloden, has come to dominate the iconography of that event. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 4
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A monarch’s divine ability to cure scrofula was an established ritual when James I came to the English throne in 1603. Initially sceptical of the Catholic characteristics of the ceremony, the king found ways to ‘Protestantise’ it and to reflect his own hands-on approach to kingship, writes Stephen Brogan. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 2
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Kevin Sharpe revisits an article by C.V. Wedgwood, first published in History Today in 1960, that looks at the diplomatic mission made by the artist Peter Paul Rubens to the court of Charles I. Read the original article here. |
Painter of genius, gifted courtier and much-travelled man of the world, Rubens reached England in 1629, charged with the delicate task of furthering an entente between the Spanish government and Great Britain. C.V. Wedgwood shows how he enjoyed the conversation of his youthful host, whose fine aesthetic taste he shared, but shrewdly judged the weakness of King Charles I’s diplomacy. Published in History Today, Volume:10 Issue: 12
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Sexually explicit jigs were a major part of the attraction of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration stage, as Lucie Skeaping explains. |
The fortunes of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II and the regard in which their successive regimes came to be held were mirrored in the fate of one of their mightiest naval vessels, as Patrick Little explains. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 9
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Martin Greig reveals the intimate relationship between the powerful Earl of Lauderdale, Charles II's Secretary for Scotland in the 1660s, and a Scottish spinster who became the earl's 'Presbyterian conscience' during a tumultuous period for kirk and crown. Published in Volume: 60 Issue: 9
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Lucy Worsley reveals the strange stories of the cast of characters on the King’s Grand Staircase at Kensington Palace, painted by William Kent for George I in the 1720s. Published in Volume: 60 Issue: 4
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A revolution in sociability took place among the genteel and ‘middling’
classes of 18th-century England, as visiting friends of similar social
status became a leisure pursuit in itself, especially among women,writes Amanda Vickery.
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A curious relationship exists between the Caucasus state and the West, explored by Nigel Fountain.
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John Spiller assesses James I’s impact on the Puritans and the Puritans’ impact on James I. |
Charles II was the only king of England for two hundred years to survive exile and return to power. Anna Keay considers how he kept up his regal appearances whilst in exile, paving the way for his return to the throne.
Published in History Today, 2008
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Richard Cavendish marks a failed attempt on the Scottish and English thrones by the last Stuart pretender, on March 23rd, 1708. |
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