It was in the Tudor and early Stuart periods that ordinary people really got involved in politics.  It was a world of political gossip, rumour, news and satire.  It gave us the first newspapers and the rise of the political petition.  It was an age of rebellion and riot when the power of the great […]

Tudor England was a dangerous place.  There were plagues and wars, perilous childbirths and shocking infant mortality.  But what risks did people face as they went about their everyday lives?  Steven Gunn of Merton College and Tomasz Gromelski of Wolfson College are investigating this problem using evidence from coroner's reports preserved in the National Archives.  The […]