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

Tudor

The Cromwell enigma: Hilary Mantel and Diarmaid MacCulloch on Wolf Hall's complex hero.

Henry VIII. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Q&AHow many executions was Henry VIII responsible for?

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

A portrait of King Edward VI of England

Who was the real Edward VI?.

Tudor dining: a guide to food and status in the 16th century

Tudors at sea: 8 ways to survive a voyage.

Wolf Hall: author Hilary Mantel talks Tudors, historical accuracy and winning the Man Booker Prize.

History quiz - Queens of England.

Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall: Author Hilary Mantel talks Tudors and Thomas Cromwell.

A portrait of Thomas Cromwell

Thomas Cromwell: The rise and fall of Henry VIII’s henchman

Fresh views on the Wars of the Roses.

Thomas Cromwell’s fall from grace.

Six wives of Henry VIII

The six wives of Henry VIII quiz

Top 10 Tudor stories

10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

An illustration of a Tudor street

“Mooke, fylthe and other vyle things”: Tudor dirt and dung.

Richard III and dirty Tudors.

Portrait of Henry VIII

Q&AWhich of Henry VIII's wives was his best match?.

Revealed: the secrets of the Tudor cross-dressers

Incent's House as it stands today on the Berkhamsted High Street. (Creative Commons)

The hunt for the Tudor hitman.

Tracy Borman's Tudor quiz

'The butterfly hunt' (1874) by Berthe Morisot

The LibraryFirst ladies of art: three trailblazing female artists from history.

An illustration from the first edition of John Foxe The Book of Martyrs. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The LibraryElizabeth I’s war with England’s Catholics

Top 10 strange history stories

Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain.

Picture depicting the Articles of Union being presented to Queen Anne

Q&AWhy did Scotland join the 1707 Union with England?

Shakespeare: 7 burning questions about his life.

The Palace of Westminster

Q&AWhy do we call the British government ‘Whitehall’?

An illustration of King Henry VIII and his six wives

The hidden lives of Henry VIII's six wives.

Photo of Mount Grace Priory

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