Mary & George depicts the real-life story of Mary Villiers and her son George, and their social climbing at the early 17th century English royal court.
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Impeachment was a common political tool in early modern England, but its use lapsed 20 years after it was adopted in the US constitution.
Charles I’s belief that art was a way of projecting power bankrupted England and alienated his people. The rest is history.
Anne of Denmark proved women could play a key role in the 17th-century patriarchy.
It wasn’t just ‘mindless’ brutality – but it should remind us that violence too often begets violence.
Look back centuries ago and you’ll find the same obsessive secrecy, and the same justifications, as seen today.
Royal PR in pictures started with the Stuarts 400 years ago.
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Head of English, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Exeter
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PhD Candidate in Early Modern Art and Literature, Queen Mary University of London
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Brunel University of London
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