What makes a feminist? In my view, a feminist is someone who knows her rights and isn’t afraid to fight for them, regardless of societal pushback. A feminist looks out
An enormously rare piece of Tudor clothing, known as the Bacton Altar Cloth, is now on show at Hampton Court Palace – and it was once one of Elizabeth I’s
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
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
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
Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I’s letters to each other were their only sources of communication. They remain to this day historians’ most insightful sources on the 25-year rivalry
