The best-selling author returns to the world of the Tudor court 25 years after The Other Boleyn Girl launched her into the ...

Englishman Thomas Stukeley offered his services to various Catholic powers. He died while fighting for the Portuguese at the ...

Mary, Queen of Scots became a natural at the “black art of subterfuge” during her captivity in England as the state unleashed ...

The answer lies in the oft-surprising story encapsulated within the solid stone walls of Cadhay, an elegant but refreshingly homely manor house near Ottery St Mary.

Students from Swindon went "time travelling" during a hands-on history trip. Pupils from Lydiard Park Academy, Swindon, went on an exploration through time to delve into the story of Henry VIII’s ...

Invented during the reign of England's King Henry VIII for use at the Tower of London, the scavenger's daughter was a metal device that forced its victims into a kneeling position, painfully ...

Elizabeth I is the only English queen never to have married. The iconic Tudor monarch's last visit to Kenilworth Castle 450 ...

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 ...

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.

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When Knighthood Was in Flower review Marion Davies brings a sense of fun and adventure to the role of Mary Tudor, the younger sister of Henry VIII, who was forced into marrying the ageing French King ...