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Bishops tumble, with “popish” paraphernalia falling from their pockets, in a woodcut from a 1641 Puritan pamphlet titled 'A Decade of Grievances' (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

How people power fuelled England’s century of chaos

Passengers and crew leap from the Gloucester after the ship is wrecked in 1682, in a contemporary painting by Johan Danckerts (Image by National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London)

The sinking of the Gloucester: the shipwreck that rocked Restoration England

Dr Clare Jackson (Photo by Caroline Mardon)

Clare Jackson on the Restoration “Radical ideas that had been preached and published could not be unthought”

A c1642 portrait of a 12-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, accompanied by a page, likely painted to commemorate his presence at the battle of Edgehill (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Making of a monarch: how the young Charles II endured war, defeat and exile before the Restoration

The Royal Observatory, commissioned by Charles II in 1675, on a hill in Greenwich Park, London (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Art, culture and science in the Restoration period

Coronation portrait of Charles II after his crowning at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661 (Image by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

Your ultimate guide to the Restoration period

An illustration of Charles II entering London on 29 May 1660 after the restoration of the monarchy (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Restoration period A timeline of key moments

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Rob Roy MacGregor by George Shearer. Scottish folk hero and outlaw.

The real Rob Roy

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Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to India . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Salem Investigating the witch trials

King James VII and II depicted while in exile in France.

What were the 1707 Acts of Union and what did they achieve?

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Life under Cromwell: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the ‘worst pirate of all time’

American actress Ethel Grandin (1894 - 1988) holds a wine glass for a man in a tuxedo in a still from an unidentified silent film, circa 1920. (Photo by Vintage Images/Getty Images)

Historical recipe Alcoholic punch