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Thomas Gresham's Archbishop: Early Life and Education

Matthew Parker (1504-1575) was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to...

Sir Thomas Gresham and the New Learning

Sir Thomas Gresham founded his College in 1597 in order...

Sir Thomas Gresham and The New Learning

The subjects chosen by Sir Thomas Gresham for his Professors...

Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times

Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...

The End of the Old World Order, 1530 to 1650

The Reformation and the Civil War, two events a century...

Tudor Health Reform: The Politics of Health Reform from a Medieval Perspective

Is the NHS medieval? Is this an insulting claim to...

Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell

There have been more prisons in London than in any...

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - A well-scrubbed world

The Livery Companies in Tudor London

In the Sixteenth Century London developed as a major trading...

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - Dr William Harvey and the seventeenth-century medical revolution