The Tudors

Nowadays most of us are familiar with Christmas celebrations being centred mainly around Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve,  but what were these celebrations like in centuries gone by? Let’s…

A set of letters written by Elizabeth I and her courtiers about her captive cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, has been donated to the British Library. 43 historically important letters…

We’re pretty sure you have heard of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England. And probably George Boleyn, too, her brother with whom she supposedly had an incestuous relationship How about their…

Margaret Beaufort – an often overlooked and forgotten figure in English history – actually played a large part on the process of making England the country it is today. She…

The BBC aired the first of its new series last night documenting the so-called “secret agents” who worked to protect Elizabeth I, Europe’s most powerful Head of State, and undermine…

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was the uncle of the Tudor queens, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. Having promoted both of them to Henry VIII as potential partners, and…

In the almost-1000 year history of the Monarchy, Elizabeth II is the 41st Monarch to reign, and the 12th Sovereign of Great Britain. But how do you keep track of them…

A ring that is believed to have been gifted by Elizabeth I to one of her senior naval officers following the defeat of the Spanish Armada, is to go on…

Beneath the Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, the birthplace of Henry VIII, Mary I and Elizabeth I has been found: Greenwich Palace. Evidence of the…

A woman who was certainly influential in early modern England, was Margaret Beaufort. Often a forgotten figure, she was Henry VII’s mother, and is thought to have brought him to…

Nonsuch Palace was perhaps Henry VIII’s greatest architectural achievement, and yet few people know about one of the most stunning Tudor Palaces since it no longer stands today. Located near…

Perhaps one of the most famous naval victories in English history, and certainly a famous moment of Elizabeth I’s reign, was the defeat of the Spanish Armada, which took place today…

Henry VIII’s doomed warship, the Mary Rose sank in 1545, with hundreds of lives lost. Now, following a revamp to the exhibition, history fans can get a close up view…

An appeal has been launched to save one of three surviving versions of the Armada portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. The life-sized portrait is just one of three remaining versions…

A new study into what caused Henry VIII’s abrupt change in behaviour from the mid 1530s has said it was a brain injury which altered the Tudor Monarch’s personality. But…

Continuing from part I of “The relationship of Elizabeth I & Mary Queen of Scots in letters” We have already established that Elizabeth’s relationship with her cousin Mary had already…

One of the five tiltyard towers of Henry VIII’s jousting arena has been discovered at Hampton Court Palace. A puzzle that has remained unsolved for decades, the location of one…