Body politic
In this ambitious study, Julie Peakman examines how sex, gender and empire interacted in imperial contact zones that range from the first ‘New World’ of the Americas to Polynesia and Oceania,
Anniversaries
Charles II exacts gruesome vengeance on his father's nemesis Twelve years to the day after Charles I's execution at Whitehall, his son and heir, Charles II, orchestrated an act of posthumous revenge on Oliver Cromwell, one of the chief architects of