Anna Whitelock

Anna Whitelock is a historian, author and broadcaster. She is professor of the history of monarchy at City, University of London and director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy. Anna is an international media commentator on monarchy, public history and heritage, and the Tudors and Stuarts

Recent articles by Anna Whitelock

Anna Whitelock looks back on some key moments that made the historical headlines in 2021

The state of history in 2021

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General History

Anna Whitelock's Talking Points Friends or enemies?

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Anna Whitelock's Talking Points A history of violence

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Anna Whitelock's Talking Points Foundational stories

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Anna Whitelock's Talking Points Plot twists

Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Her legend speaks merely of burning Protestants, yet her time on the throne featured many great achievements, not least establishing that a woman had the right to reign. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mary I: the forgotten trailblazer

St Catharine's College, Cambridge has already removed a bell from view after concluding it came from a slave plantation. (Image by Alamy)

Anna Whitelock Confronting slavery’s legacy

A 19th-century portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Elizabeth I’s love life: was she really a ‘Virgin Queen’?

Mary, Queen of Scots craved the throne occupied by her cousin Elizabeth I (pictured). Theirs was a relationship defined by plots, massacres, assassinations and ultimately, the executioner's sword. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Deadly rivals: Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots

From left: Fern Riddell, a cultural historian specialising in sex and suffrage; Janina Ramirez, a broadcaster and historian based at the University of Oxford; Joann Fletcher, a broadcaster and writer, and an Egyptologist at the University of York; Anna Whitelock, a historian of royal and early modern history, based at Royal Holloway, University of London. (Photography by Helen Atkinson)

What is it like to be a female historian in the 21st century?

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Women in popular history

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“Studying history is the ultimate passport to the future”

Portrait of Mary I of England, from the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Mary I: a highly impressive queen cut off in her prime

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Elizabeth I: the monarch behind the mask

Procession portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How Elizabeth I used parties as a weapon against the Catholic threat to her throne