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

Tudor

Bribes, gifts and scandal: 7 stories of corruption that shocked Britain.

The Reformation.

Bombay, the East India Company's port on the Malabar Coast of India, 1755. Company trading vessels are depicted in the foreground and quayside warehouses and buildings behind. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The chaotic conquest of India.

View of Algiers with mediterranean galleys, published in Johannes van Keulen's Dutch Atlas, 1709. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

When Britons were slaves in Africa

How could the son of Henry VIII become Edward VI?.

Through foreign eyes: the forgotten ambassadors to the Tudor court.

Peter Snow’s six most important documents in history.

Reporting from war zones.

The secrets of 6 of Britain’s most famous castles – with Dan Jones

Illustrations by Sarah Young, based on contemporary portraits where available

Henry VII’s brilliant upstarts: the lowborn henchmen who served the first Tudor king.

Historical television and the battle of Flodden.

Accidental explosions: gunpowder in Tudor and Stuart London.

Photo of pencils

Q&AHow old is the pencil?

Full-Length Portrait of King Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger

Q&AHow big was Henry VIII’s codpiece?

The reluctant ambassador: the life and times of Tudor diplomat Sir Thomas Chaloner.

Mompesson House, which has sinister connections with a ghost known as the Demon Drummer. (Clare Hargreaves/The National Trust)

9 haunted historic houses

7 unusual historical sites in Britain and Ireland

Tudor monarchs and a medieval civil war.

Portrait of William Shakespeare by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

My history hero: William Shakespeare (1564–1616).

A portrait of Anne Boleyn

Did Eustace Chapuys really despise Anne Boleyn?

Suzannah Lipscomb & Dan Jones discuss Henry VIII's final two wives: Catherine Howard & Katherine Parr

Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb discuss Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton star in the 1967 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'. One of the playwright's most notorious couples, Katherine and Petruchio are far from a harmonious love match. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Shakespeare’s 7 most notorious couples

Shakespeare’s world and cricket in South Africa.

Shakespeare’s London: playing a dangerous game.

Swan Theatre, Bankside, London, interior from drawing by Johannes de Witt. The Shakespearian theatre, erected c1593 on Bankside – could hold 3,000 spectators – typical of the time. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

At the playhouse: watching Shakespeare's plays in Elizabethan England.

Elizabeth I of England

Personal politics in Elizabeth I's court.

Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb on 'Henry VIII And His Six Wives'

Student life and working class culture.

Shakespeare: the historians’ view.