Science and Astronomy might not be the first topics that come to mind when thinking of the vast collections that the Archives and Chapter Library of St George’s Chapel holds. However, within a series of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century tracts (brief ...
William Derham, a chaplain to George Prince of Wales (later King George II), was appointed a Canon of Windsor in August 1716 and installed a month later. He held the canonry until his death in 1735 and divided his time ...
Few of the Garter knights have as dashing an historical reputation as Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619-1682), Charles I’s German-born nephew. A soldier from the age of just thirteen, he came to England in 1642 with his brother Prince ...