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

Tudor

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

Traquair House, Peeblesshire

Suzannah Lipscomb on the importance of the Tudors.

A coloured engraving from the 16th century depicting Walter Ralegh's arrival in Virginia. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Tudors in America: how England's New World colonies came into being.

Boat trip marks Mary Rose anniversary

Hampton Court Palace

The LibraryWhere history happened: a history of disability.

Cowdray, West Sussex

Visit historic Carlisle

Shibden Hall, Halifax

Executed queen

The replica of 'The Matthew' arriving at Douarnenez, France in 1998. It was on the original 15th-century vessel that John Cabot travelled to North America. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: Tudor smuggling.

Peover Hall, Cheshire

Procession portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How Elizabeth I used parties as a weapon against the Catholic threat to her throne.

Arundel Castle, West Sussex

Richard II, led captive by Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV), renounces the throne in Jean Creton's 'Histoire du Roy d'Angleterre Richard II' (1401-05). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Richard II: “I find myself a traitor”.

Stamford, Lincolnshire

Castle Campbell, Clackmannanshire

A view towards the Carew estuary between a dry stone wall and the ruins of Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire, UK. (Dreamstime)

Where history happened: Tudor courtiers with Suzannah Lipscomb.

Philip of Spain, King of England: The Forgotten Sovereign

Winter defeats scurvy

Dundrennan Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

In the 16,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, societies in Eurasia and the Americas followed radically different trajectories. Here, an Aztec priest offers the heart taken from a living person to the god of war, Huitzilopochtli. (Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

The old world and the new.

Line engraving depicting the burning of Rawlins White, c1555. From a late 18th-century edition of John Foxe's 'The Book of Martyrs'. (Alamy)

The Making of Martyrs.

Glenluce Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

Whithorn Priory, Dumfries and Galloway

How to escape the tower.

An illustration from ‘A Short History of the English People’ by John Richard Green. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Drowning in Tudor England: why was water so dangerous?.

A monument to Nicolaus Copernicus in Poland.

Q&AWas Copernicus the first to demonstrate that the earth goes around the sun?.

Anne of Cleves House, East Sussex

Clare Priory, Suffolk