Stuart

Was power really devolved to Scotland in 1660, asks John Patrick, when the restoration of Charles II led to the recreation of separate Scottish institutions?

In the Georgian age the insane came to be seen not as a threat to society but as its victims. Roy Porter shows however that, in treating the mad with greater compassion, contemporary practice was often to deny the voice of the spiritual.

C.V. Wedgwood challenges the accepted view of Charles I's fated minister, Thomas Wentworth.

Michael Jaffe traces the relationship between king and master.