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

Tudor

Picture of the charge of the 4th Hussars at the battle of Friedland

Q&AWhat were hussar regiments?

Photo of Clifford Tower in York

Q&AWhat was the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Talking Tudors: Sam Willis meets Suzannah Lipscomb

Illustration by Becca Thorne.

Deadly beasts of Tudor England.

Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600.

The Black Death and Tudor adventurers.

Revealed: the tomb of Henry VIII's forgotten son

JFK and a neglected Tudor, Elizabeth of York.

The other Elizabethan England.

Who's the best-dressed Briton in history?.

Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle.

Margam Park, Port Talbot

Smithills Hall, Bolton

6 royal births that rocked a nation.

General prehistory

Isle of Tiree, Hebrides

A woodcut depicting a witch hanging in England, c17th Century. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Witches in the dock: 10 of Britain’s most infamous witch trials

Helmingham Hall, Suffolk

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

10 places where history was made.

Visit historic Conwy

Strangers’ Hall, Norwich

Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire

The Spanish Armada: Tudor spin portrayed the events of August 1588 as a glorious English victory but, argues Robert Hutchinson, bad weather and bad tactics had more to do with the Spanish fleet's failure than Elizabethan derring-do. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Spanish Armada: England's lucky escape.

Visit historic Warwick

Grosvenor Museum, Chester

How the Tudors invented breakfast.

Thomas Cromwell: a thug in a doublet?.

Gawsworth Hall, Macclesfield

Winston Churchill, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, gives his 'victory' sign while making a polling day tour of his constituency during an election. (Getty Images)

Are these the most overrated people in history?.

First Textbook

Toys and games that killed in Tudor England.

Q&A: Where did the monks go after the dissolution of the monasteries?.