Dr Joanne Paul

Dr Joanne Paul is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Sussex and AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. Her research focuses on the history of the Renaissance and Early Modern Period.

Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

Thomas More's Utopia – what lessons did it have for Tudor England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Thomas More: saint or sinner?

Evil May Day

Flames and violence: the Evil May Day Riots that shook Tudor London