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Margaret Cavendish: scandalous 17th-century writer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A purported portrait of Elizabeth Báthory as a young woman

General Early Modern

Elizabeth Báthory: a 17th-century 'serial killer'

Kate Mosse on pirate women & Huguenot refugees. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

QuizHow much do you know about the Civil War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cromwell depicted with Major-General John Lambert

What if...Oliver Cromwell’s son had never been named Lord Protector?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Picture depicting the Battle of Worcester

The battle of Worcester: Cromwell’s last battle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roundheads and Cavaliers: where did the Civil War nicknames come from?

Painting depicting the Battle of Naseby

The battle of Naseby: what happened?

A 19th-century painting of Queen Henrietta Maria fleeing England as the Civil Wars turn against Charles I (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

From the home front to the front line: what were the roles of women in the Civil War?

In a 19th-century painting by Charles Landseer, Oliver Cromwell reads Charles I’s explosive correspondence captured at Naseby. It revealed the king was conspiring to gain Catholic support for his cause (Photo by ART Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)

10 key battles of the Civil War

A painting of the battle of Naseby

The New Model Army: how Oliver Cromwell’s radical fighting force won the Civil War

Elizabeth Cromwell

Elizabeth Cromwell: the life of Oliver Cromwell’s shadowy queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting of the battle of Naseby

Is it incorrect to refer to the ‘English Civil War’?

Charles I in Parliament in 1642, where he made an abortive attempt to arrest five MPs, from a 19th-century painting by Charles West Cope (Photo by The Print Collector/Alamy Stock Photo)

8 reasons why the Civil War broke out. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Civil War podcast episodes

Members of the Sealed Knot stage a re-enactment of the battle of Nantwich, fought during the Civil Wars in 1644 (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Crown v Parliament: your guide to the Civil War of the 17th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, fleeing from battle after attempting to unseat his Catholic uncle, King James II and VII, from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland (Photo by De Luan/Alamy Stock Photo)

The Monmouth Rebellion of 1685: your guide to the a duke's failed bid to overthrow his uncle, James II and VI

Plot or paranoia? The Amboyna conspiracy trial. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bishops tumble, with “popish” paraphernalia falling from their pockets, in a woodcut from a 1641 Puritan pamphlet titled 'A Decade of Grievances' (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

How people power fuelled England's century of chaos. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Passengers and crew leap from the Gloucester after the ship is wrecked in 1682, in a contemporary painting by Johan Danckerts (Image by National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London)

The sinking of the Gloucester: the shipwreck that rocked Restoration England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dr Clare Jackson (Photo by Caroline Mardon)

Clare Jackson on the Restoration“Radical ideas that had been preached and published could not be unthought”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1642 portrait of a 12-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, accompanied by a page, likely painted to commemorate his presence at the battle of Edgehill (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Making of a monarch: how the young Charles II endured war, defeat and exile before the Restoration. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Royal Observatory, commissioned by Charles II in 1675, on a hill in Greenwich Park, London (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Art, culture and science in the Restoration period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Coronation portrait of Charles II after his crowning at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661 (Image by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

Your ultimate guide to the Restoration period

An illustration of Charles II entering London on 29 May 1660 after the restoration of the monarchy (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Restoration periodA timeline of key moments

Century of chaos: people & power in the 1600s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Njinga: queen, warrior, diplomat. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rob Roy MacGregor by George Shearer. Scottish folk hero and outlaw.

The real Rob Roy

Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to India. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

SalemInvestigating the witch trials