Learn how hats became symbols of power and protest in early modern England’s “hat wars,” and why refusing to remove one could ...

Samuel Pepys’s journals are an invaluable record of British history. A new book reconsiders his infamous sexual exploits.

For a brief but explosive period in the 17th century, Britain abolished its monarchy entirely. Civil war, political radicalism, and the execution of a king reshaped the country’s future. The idea that ...