Royal women of eastern Asia

Royal women of eastern Asia

How will these resources help you? All too often, the lives of royal women, particularly outside of a British and European context, are missing in wider histories, textbooks and the curriculum. Yet looking at pre-modern east Asia offers a multitude of exciting...
Royal women of eastern Asia

Women and the Renaissance

How will these resources help you? For too long when discussing the Renaissance – along with the rise of humanism and new artistic techniques that spread across Europe – women were forgotten. It was almost as if they had never had any part in it. In 1976, Joan Kelly,...
Royal women of eastern Asia

The reign of King John

How will these resources help you? The chronicler Matthew Paris, writing in the 1230s, said: ‘England reeks with John’s filthy deeds; the foulness of Hell is defiled by John.’ But can this interpretation of the reign be considered fair? While Richard I is a glamorous...