John Stubbs’s study of the English civil war has enough colourful characters to inspire a new series of Blackadder If Ben Elton ever writes another series of Blackadder, Reprobates ought to be top of ...

hell-tech, the leading greek adventure-publisher, has announced that thrilling PC-based adventure "Reprobates" reached the gold stage. The game will be released by the ambitious Greek publisher on the ...

The 17th-century showdown between Charles I and Parliament is fought as much with rhymes as with muskets in this scintillating literary-historical study of the royalist worldview. Biographer Stubbs ...

Aldi’s Reprobates sparkling wine got the criminal treatment earlier this month, following a ruling that it breached industry code by creating a “direct and dominant association with illegal behaviour” ...

Cavaliers vs Roundheads: we know what they stand for, both in the English civil wars and as later bywords for reactionary hedonism or radical austerity. Right? Wrong: "People remain more complex than ...

Nicola Shulman revels in Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War by John Stubbs, a vibrant account of the Royalist poets. John Stubbs is the starry young literary historian whose ...

Cavaliers liked bullfights, so it seems. In 1623, the heir to the British throne and his father's much-resented favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, galloped from London to Madrid on a doomed and ...

John Stubbs's Reprobates suggests that there was rather more to the Cavaliers than hedonism, dandyism and royalism, says John Adamson Few stock figures are more easily recognisable than that of the ...