andrew marvell
When botanists resembled a worldwide intelligence network
At the height of the British Empire, our plant specialists were gathering information from every climate zone and returning it neatly classified to the centre at Kew
The flowering of enlightenment under Oliver Cromwell
Far from being a puritanical wasteland, revolutionary Britain saw the foundation of the Oxford Circle, a group of philosophers and scientists who bridged the political divide of the times
Bellicose but comradely
One of the first retrospective accounts of Oliver Cromwell’s early career, Andrew Marvell’s ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from…
