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Samuel Pepys, sex and the Stuarts - film
Uncover the salacious side of Stuart London, from the many mistresses of King Charles II to Samuel Pepys's notorious affairs.
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Samuel Pepys and the Royal Society - film
Did you know that Samuel Pepys became president of the Royal Society - despite very limited scientific knowledge! How did his love of fish almost stop the publication of Isaac Newton's world-changing Principia Mathematica?
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Sailors' cap ribbons
The silk ribbons on a sailor's cap came to be through both custom and regulation.
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is the hero of Daniel Defoe's famous 1719 novel that tells the story of a man cast away on an island in the Caribbean for 26 years.
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was first published in 1798 and is one of the most famous poems in the English language.
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Restoring England's currency
By the 1560s, newly minted Elizabethan coins had helped to renew people's trust in England's currency at home and abroad.
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Queen Elizabeth I's Privy Council
The Privy Council was a defined body that advised Queen Elizabeth I and acted as the administrative centre for her government.
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Queen Elizabeth I
One of England's most-famous monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) rebuilt England's standing in the world.
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Projectors, pranks and perpetual motion
From the satirical to the serious, the quest for longitude provoked a wealth of responses, some more worthy of attention than others.
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Positional astronomy
The challenges of measuring everything from a fast-moving, wobbly platform through a haze.