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Introduction
1. The End of the Tudors Was the Start of the Stuarts
2. There Were Two Calendars in Use
3. Flirty Minette Had a Sad Time of It … as Did Her Daughters
4. The Bills of Mortality Included Some Truly Horrific Causes of Death
5. The Coffeehouse Was the Place to Be
6. John Aubrey Wasn’t Very Good at Completing His Projects
7. George Villiers Enjoyed a Meteoric Rise to Power, but a Vile End
8. Charles II Couldn’t Keep It in His Pants
9. Mathematical Genius Isaac Newton Thwarted a Counterfeiter
10. Guy Fawkes Was Neither an Anarchist Nor the Ringleader of the Gunpowder Plot
11. Women Didn’t Wear Knickers
12. The Stuart Family Had a Nasty Habit of Losing Their Heads
13. Samuel Pepys Was a Lusty Fellow
14. Rich or Poor – Parasites Did Not Discriminate
15. The Royal Society Was Founded by Some of the Brightest of the Stuart Age
16. Some People Thought Orange Juice Was Dangerous
17. William Harvey Discovered Blood Circulation
18. Restoration Rakes Were Oversexed, Overdressed and Over-the-Top
19. The Bank of England Was Founded in 1694 … and Created the National Debt
20. Charles I Was the Spare Who Became the Heir
21. The Reign of William and Mary Was the Only Diarchy in British History
22. Highwaymen and Footpads Made Journeys Perilous
23. Shakespeare Left Us the Greatest Works in the English Language … and an Enduring Controversy
24. Witchcraft Was a Very Serious Matter
25. New York Used to Be New Amsterdam
26. Plague Doctors Weren’t Always Doctors
27. The ‘Bloodless’ Glorious Revolution Definitely Wasn’t Bloodless
28. Diarist John Evelyn Was a Salad Fiend
29. Rupert of the Rhine Was a Stuart-Era Renaissance Man
30. The French Set the Fashion for Nearly Everything
31. A Physician’s ‘Cures’ Were Often Worse than the Disease
32. St Paul’s Cathedral Dominated London’s Skyline for over 200 Years
33. The Stuart Era Had the First Poets Laureate
34. The Greenwich Observatory Was Created to Solve the Longitude Problem
35. Monmouth’s Rebellion Ended at the Battle of Sedgemoor
36. The Duke of Monmouth Was Dashing, but Doomed
37. The Stuarts Had Some Pretty Normal Hobbies
38. Not All Members of the Stuart Family Were Buried Together
39. John Milton Was Blind and Impoverished When He Died
40. Most of Whitehall Palace Was Destroyed by Fire in 1698
41. James II’s Followers Were Known as the Jacobites
42. Kensington Palace Became a Royal Residence in the Late Stuart Period
43. Some Stuart Ladies Had Killer Beauty Regimes
44. Sir Christopher Wren Was the Man
45. Cromwell Was King in All but Name
46. Ireland Often Got a Raw Deal
47. The English Civil Wars Changed Everything
48. Masques Were a Formal Entertainment, but Some Thought Them Immoral
49. Stuart Philosophers Ushered In an Age of Reason
50. William and Mary Didn’t Manage to Modernise All of Hampton Court Palace
51. Pirates, Especially the Barbary Pirates, Were a Constant Terror
52. Boys Wore Skirts Until ‘Breeched’; Women Sometimes Dressed like Men
53. Daniel Defoe Kept Getting into Hot Water
54. Stuart Gardens Were Baroque-Tastic
55. There Were More Plots in the Stuart Era than in a Soap Opera
56. We Really Can’t Blame a Mole for William III’s Death
57. Dogs Were Popular with Kings and Kitchen Staff Alike
58. The 2nd Duke of Buckingham Duelled over a Married Woman … and Won
59. English Architecture Shifted from Late Renaissance to Exuberant Baroque
60. Louis XIV of France Bankrolled Charles II of England
61. The Stuart Era Had Some Truly Heavy-Handed Laws
62. Mary, Princess Royal, Had a Mother-in-Law from Hell
63. A Sovereign’s Choice of Spouse Could Make or Break Them
64. Insatiable Royal Mistress Barbara Palmer Courted Trouble
65. Stuart Era Music Could Be Political, but Was Always Beautiful
66. England and Scotland Were Not Officially United until 1707
67. There Were Several Popular How-To Books
68. Anne Hyde Was a Commoner Who Became the Mother of Queens
69. Questioning a Monarch’s Sexuality Was a Tactic Used to Discredit Them
70. The Levellers and Diggers Were Totally Radical
71. A Portuguese Princess Made Tea-Drinking Fashionable in England
72. Two Royal Sisters Fell Out over the Duke of Marlborough’s Tempestuous Wife
73. Roundheads and Cavaliers Both Had Important Players
74. John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Was a Great Military Leader
75. The Dutch and the English Didn’t Get On
76. The Most Beautiful Women of the Late Stuart Courts Were Immortalised in Art
77. A King’s Touch Was Believed to Cure Disease
78. Behn, Cavendish and Astell Were Successful Female Writers
79. The Great Fire Made a Great Mess
80. Three Major American Universities Were Founded During the Stuart Era
81. Notorious Party-Boy Poet John Wilmot Ended Up in a Very Bad Way
82. Stuart-Era Plays Were All the Rage
83. James I’s Daughter Elizabeth Was the ‘Winter Queen’
84. Puritans Really Weren’t Much Fun
85. Fringe Religious Groups Were Not to Be Ignored
86. Northampton Had Its Very Own Great Fire
87. Stuart Personal Hygiene Was Not Very Hygienic
88. Baroque Art Was Voluptuous and Extravagant
89. Childbirth Was Often Fatal – to Mother and Child Alike
90. The Divine Right of Kings Wasn’t So Divine – It Proved Problematic
91. Henry Purcell Ruled Seventeenth-Century English Baroque Music
92. The Great Plague Was Pretty Nasty
93. Sir John Vanbrugh Wrote Naughty Plays and Designed Stately Buildings
94. ‘Colonel’ Blood Nearly Stole the Crown Jewels … and Was Ultimately Rewarded
95. Many of Charles I’s Regicides Met Ghastly Ends
96. Hooke Showed Us Another World with His Microscope
97. Celia Fiennes Was a Stuart-Era Female Travel Expert
98. Ashmole and Bodley Left Us More than a Museum and a Library
99. A Royal Birth Started a Revolution
100. Stuart Misfortunes Led to Hanoverian Power
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