“henry was not a great king but he was respected as a most christian one”

You wouldn’t guess from the cover design—three songbirds silhouetted over swatches of picturesque Englishness—but Catherine Clarke’s A History of England in 25 Poems hits one of its sweet spots with a

ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

JOHN DOWLAND IS MY NAME: musician, composer, greatest lute player of my age in Europe, some say, when in England Elizabeth and James were on the throne. I died in 1626 when I was 63 and was buried on

Alice Loxton EleanorA 200-mile walk in search of England’slost queen352pp. Pan Macmillan. £22. Many are commemorated in stone, but few so grandly as Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290). Following her unexpec

Owain Glyndŵr attempted to free Wales from the tyrannical grasp of the English but vanished into obscurity

The historian, author and former director of planning and development at English Heritage tells Anne Cuthbertson about his life and work in the capital