Map of England and Wales, 1824 Early Modern England is the website for people interested in the history of England. We focus on English history from the late 15th century to the 19th century, including the Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians and Victorian Age.

We hope to offer you interesting news and resources about this period, including articles,  videos and reports about places to see in England that shows its historical heritage.

Articles

Over 300 articles online including:

The ‘Gresham Ship’: an interim report on a 16th-century wreck from Princes Channel, Thames Estuary

Violence and violent crime in the North East, c. 1650-1720

Reactions and responses to the Great Fire: London and England in the later 17th century

Bearded Women in Early Modern England

Sporting Days in Eighteenth Century England

The Old Bailey proceedings and the representation of crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century London

Elizabeth’s Symbolic Marriage to England: A History of Lasting Union

Women, performance, and the household in early modern England, 1580-1660

The Pirate and the Privateer: A Comparative Study of Sir Francis Drake and Sir Henry Morgan

Glass Houses: Why the Subjects of Queen Elizabeth Avoided the Subject of Pope Joan

Videos

1688: The First Modern Revolution

The Abolition of the Slave Trade 200 Years On

Why no Revolution in 1848 in Britain

News

Work begins on Mary Rose Museum

Welsh Castle for Sale

Disease killed soldiers from Oliver Cromwell’s army discovered in Fishergate

Eleanor Cross in London restored

British Library unrolls Henry VIII’s pious past

Hospital archive reveals the treatment of the mentally ill in the Victorian Period

Books

Dangerous Talk: Scandalous, Seditious, and Treasonable Speech in Pre-Modern England, by David Cressy

Fighting fires : creating the British fire service, 1800-1978, by Shane Ewen

Places to See

Belsay Hall and Castle – Northumberland

Apsley House – London

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Medieval History

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