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The Politics of Architecture in Tudor and Stuart London

How the Tudor and Stuart monarchs used the buildings of...

London Churches under the First Elizabeth

Richard Chartres considers the most important religious figures and dilemmas...

Foreign Artists in 16th Century London

The 16th Century was a great period for foreign artists...

Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history

Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended...

The Tudor Port of London: Archaeological evidence for goods handled through the Tudor Port

This conference presents an overview of the Tudor Port, the...

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

The Natural Environment of Tudor London

Drawing on evidence from contemporary maps, paintings and writings, and modern environmental science, the lecture will offer a 'virtual' walk around the City with Sir Thomas Gresham.

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

Gresham's Exchange

Why did Gresham finance and build it? What did Londoners (and others) do there? And what does the Exchange tell us about Gresham's ambitions both for himself and for London?

The Faces of a King: New research on portraits of Henry VIII

The context of royal portraiture in its early evolution, and...