Stuart (1603 – 1714)
Explore objects, stories and blogs to investigate life in London under the Stuart monarchs – a time of civil war, plague and the Great Fire.
Top-Results
Top-Results
Royalty & Aristocracy
Royalty & Aristocracy
Oliver Cromwell: The man who could have been king
Cromwell’s victories in the Civil Wars took him to the very top
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
How the Great Fire caused a London housing crisis
Rent rises, homelessness and migration to the suburbs
Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
Jack Sheppard: An 18th-century working class hero
How one young criminal became a working class hero by escaping London prisons four times.
