Mary & George depicts the real-life story of Mary Villiers and her son George, and their social climbing at the early 17th century English royal court.
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It was sometimes thought that men who had sex with men would give birth to monsters.
Not a simple tale of English kings overcoming Vikings, the creation of England involved far more bureaucracy than the epic legends let on
If history is to be of any use to those who study it, it ought to help them understand the nature of the country and society they live in.
The gate has been built on the site of an actual Roman gateway, thought to date to the invasion of Britain in AD 43.
While you enjoy a hot chocolate and a spin on the teacups, take a moment to thank the frost fairs of our ancestors for starting a beloved Christmas tradition.
The jewellery and human remains discovered at a recent excavation in Northamptonshire shed light on the elite position of some newly-Christian women in seventh century England.
Dragons have been used for political manoeuvring throughout the history of Britain.
The French meddled in the civil war between the Yorks and Lancasters, hoping for an outcome that would favour them.
Plague-wary Londoners tolerated mischievous red kites and ravens for their services to the city’s sanitation.
Rumours, conspiracy theories, the blame game: sound familiar?
Mantel’s prize-winning novels put imaginary flesh on the skeletal historical record and gives us the complete picture of the Tudor courtier.
African American Vernacular English is part and parcel of Black identity. Its distinctive linguistic features are — wrongly — denigrated.
The Monty Python star was also a highly respected author on Chaucer and the writer of a series of children’s history books.
It was a rocky beginning for English spelling. Then things got worse.
Sharp-eyed Victorian writers exploded the myth of tranquil village life.
Anne of Denmark proved women could play a key role in the 17th-century patriarchy.
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Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
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Professor of Medieval Literature and English Literature, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Brunel University London
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Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Postdo, University of Exeter
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Distinguished University Professor | Canada Research Chair in Linguistics | Founding Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford
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Senior Associate Tutor in History, University of Oxford
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Associate Lecturer in Arts and Humanities, The Open University
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Professor of Art History and Material Cultures, The Open University
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Departmental Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Oxford
