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Museums across the U.S. have artifacts on display that represent and reflect landmark events of the Civil Rights era.
The storied past of a bejeweled dagger long thought to have belonged Henry VIII is the subject of a new exhibition in London.
A jaw-dropping medieval property is on the real estate market in England, offering a pastoral life to interested buyers – but ...
More, a Tudor lawyer to the English monarchy, was decapitated on Tower Hill on the orders of King Henry VIII after refusing to recognize the ax-happy monarch as the head of the Church of England ...
LONDON (RNS) — King Henry VIII and his iconoclast-in-chief, Thomas Cromwell, would be stunned: Nearly 500 years after the English Reformation, Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the ...
Hans Holbein the Younger’s famous “Portrait of Henry VIII” is on loan to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica in Italy.
Anne Boleyn is one of the most infamous and tragic queens in history—and for good reason. Her courtship of King Henry VIII turned into the scandal of the century, with English law changing ...
KING WILLIAM — Scores of historic artifacts have been uncovered in an archaeological dig near King William’s historic courthouse on the site of an 18th-century tavern.
Baltimore Ravens star running back Derrick Henry made history in signing his record-breaking extension, and he took to social media shortly afterwards.
In September 2025, Aaron Koller will become the first Jew to join the university’s department of Middle Eastern Studies as the Regius Professor of Hebrew, a role established by King Henry VIII.