Stuart

A portrait of Elizabeth Stuart, painted during the reign of Charles I

Elizabeth Stuart: the treasonous portrait that touted Charles I’s sister for the throne

Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

What were women’s lives like during the 17th-century plague?

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Malcolm Gaskill The Ruin of All Witches

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A forgotten witch hunt in New England

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Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart England

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The Jacobites: everything you wanted to know

Part fifteen in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores explores 1700–1749. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1745: The Jacobite rebellion

Part fourteen in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1650–1699. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1662: Restoration tragedy

Part thirteen in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1600–1649. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1638: The Scottish Revolution

Vintners in an ale house, 1642. From a broadsheet titled ‘Health to All’, artist unknown. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas? The Puritan assault on Christmas during the 1640s and 1650s

Rhiannon Davies speaks to Nadine Akkerman about a beloved – but now widely forgotten – Stuart princess.

The Stuart princess who could have deposed Charles I

John Callow discusses the tragic case of the Bideford witches, the last women in England to be executed for the crime of witchcraft. (Image by Getty Images)

England’s last witches

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Salem witch trials Episode 9: conclusion

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Salem witch trials Episode 8: Willful, weak-minded women?

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Salem witch trials Episode 7: Quarrelsome neighbours & family tensions