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Pod Tracy Borman WL

General History

Royal residences: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Elizabeth of York

Elizabeth of York: a Tudor of rare talent

Christopher de Bellaigue “Suleyman was just as bellicose as his father, if not as gratuitously cruel”

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Suleyman the Magnificent: the 16th-century’s most powerful ruler?

A 16th-century portrait of Bess of Hardwick. Bess's talent, ambition and eye for a well-connected husband elevated her to dizzying levels of wealth and power in Tudor England. (Photo by Bridgeman Art Library)

Bess of Hardwick: schemer, social climber, scourge of Elizabeth I

L to R: Marie Antoinette of France, Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba, Hurrem (also known as Roxelana)

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Queens know best: survival lessons from powerful historical women

Rafaëlle Cohen as Anne Boleyn in BBC docu-drama The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family

The Château Vert pageant: 500 years since Anne Boleyn’s first recorded appearance at Henry VIII’s court

A portrait of Anne Boleyn

The three French queens who inspired Anne Boleyn

A late 16th century portrait of Anne Boleyn (c.1500-1536)

Q&A Did Anne Boleyn have six fingers on one hand?

Philip II, king of Spain from 1556, seated with Queen Mary I of England. They married in 1554

When Mary met Philip: a Tudor queen in love

Lettice Knollys

A Tudor love triangle: Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley

Portrait showing Mary, Queen of Scots with her hand on her hip

Mary, Queen of Scots: your guide to her life and times

Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

Thomas More’s Utopia – what lessons did it have for Tudor England?

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Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart England

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The Spanish Armada which threatened England in July 1588. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Turning points 1588: The Spanish Armada . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.