Christmas 2022 (Issue 115)

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Dr Clare Jackson (Photo by Caroline Mardon)

Clare Jackson on the Restoration “Radical ideas that had been preached and published could not be unthought” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1642 portrait of a 12-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, accompanied by a page, likely painted to commemorate his presence at the battle of Edgehill (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Making of a monarch: how the young Charles II endured war, defeat and exile before the Restoration

The Royal Observatory, commissioned by Charles II in 1675, on a hill in Greenwich Park, London (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Art, culture and science in the Restoration period

Coronation portrait of Charles II after his crowning at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661 (Image by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

Your ultimate guide to the Restoration period

An illustration of Charles II entering London on 29 May 1660 after the restoration of the monarchy (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Restoration period A timeline of key moments

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An artist’s impression of Frances Saunders printed in an edition of the Weekly Dispatch, in which she was incorrectly named ‘Mrs Francis’

Nell Darby's historical cold cases The strange case of 'Mr Francis' . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A painting shows Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in October 1812. Tens of thousands of his troops perished over the winter months that followed

What if… Napoleon had defeated Russia? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The cover of Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895, showing the

The Dreyfus Affair: how France was divided over a miscarriage of justice

The hammer and sickle, seen held aloft by the figures in this Soviet-era statue, symbolised unity between the working class and the peasantry

When and why did the Soviet Union fall? Your history guide to the USSR

sabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904), 1880. (Photo by Elliot & Fry/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

Isabella Bird: transatlantic trailblazer