From refusing to doff hats in court to resisting hat-snatching highway robbers, England's relationship with hats goes far deeper than fashion, new research shows. "Hatiquette" is a matter of personal ...

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional ...

Learn how hats became symbols of power and protest in early modern England’s “hat wars,” and why refusing to remove one could defy authority. We’ve all likely been told one time or another to take off ...

Shakespearean drama contains plenty of women, and you probably know that men portrayed them all. But there were women in the audiences of Shakespeare’s plays, and other plays in early modern England.