Portrait of King Henry VIII, Jane Seymour and Prince Edward. (Photo by Getty Images)

Tudor

An engraving from Ulrich Molitor’s ‘On witches and female soothsayers’, depicting witches bringing down the rain. Germany, 15th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

A spell-binding history of witches.

The execution of Charles I. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Murder, conspiracy and execution: six centuries of scandalous royal deaths

Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Islamic world.

Elizabeth’s love rival.

The tragedy of Lady Jane Grey.

A 19th-century depiction of the first meeting of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

History quiz: Christmas with Henry VIII and his wives.

Historian Simon Schama.

Books interview: Simon Schama.

Black faces of Tudor England.

Black Tudors.

An 1864 illustration depicts King Henry VI and the Dukes of York and Somerset, after York's return from Ireland in 1450. Artist James William Edmund Doyle. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Wars of the Roses: York v Beaufort?.

The real history behind ‘The White Princess’

Historian David Starkey.

Starkey on the Reformation.

What are Henry VIII powers?

David Starkey on the Reformation.

King Arthur feasting at Camelot

Q&AHow old is the ‘British Empire’?

Portrait depicting Mary, Queen of Scots.

History quiz - surgeons and Mary, Queen of Scots.

How did Henry VII spend his money?.

Jane Austen and Tudor London.

A map of London dating from c1572. (Getty Images)

Life in Tudor London

Anne Boleyn in the Tower

Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I in their own words: 5 fascinating letters from Tudor monarchs.

Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Henry VIII's savage Reformation

England’s bloody Reformation.

Queen Victoria’s dinners and Henry VIII’s niece.

Engraving of Henry VIII, king of England (Photo by Getty)

History quiz - holidays and Henry VIII.

Historical fiction and a US murder scandal.

A view of Hampton Court Palace, London. (Getty Images)

Simon Thurley on the architectural history of the Tudors.

Who decided Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, should be executed?

Martin Luther (centre) preaching. With one hand he points to popes, monks and cardinals going down the mouth of hell; with the other he points to the crucifix. (Getty Images)

Books interview with Eamon Duffy: "You could call the Reformation the original Brexit".

Terracotta vicar and Moses, c1770, in the Victoria And Albert Museum, London. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Vicars on the liquor.

Irish national hero Hugh O'Neill, the 2nd Earl of Tyrone, makes a formal submission to the English following the suppression of his Irish rebellion, 1603. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The LibraryHugh O'Neill: Elizabeth I’s Irish nemesis.