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

Tudor

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

Wars of the Roses

A portrait of Henry VII in 1505. His claim to the throne was tenuous and he had to see off a posse of pretenders, yet he proved a canny and competent ruler, modernising the justice system and filling the crown’s coffers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Henry VII: the survivor and stabiliser.

The LibraryThe conquest of Wales and Mary I.

The LibrarySummer holidays and Edward VI.

The LibraryThe career of one of England's most well-known kings.

The origins of the Tudors.

In 1830 a keeper at the Tower of London menagerie accidentally removed the barrier between a lion and two tigers. The animals were eventually prised apart, by which point the lion had been fatally wounded. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Life with the lions: the Tower of London menagerie.

Lyveden New Bield, Northamptonshire

St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury

The A to Z of royal weddings with Tracy Borman.

A woodcut showing the Globe Theatre, one of London's most famous landmarks and the venue most closely associated with Shakespeare's plays. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Where history happened: Elizabethan drama.

The LibraryThe Elizabethan big society.

Elizabethan adventurer, courtier, navigator and historian Sir Walter Ralegh – "a gorgeous, larger than life figure". Unfortunately, many of his peers weren't impressed by his good looks, and saw instead an arrogant man, blind to his own weaknesses. (Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The LibraryWalter Ralegh: the heroic traitor.

Finger painting.

Henry VIII: Three films

A secret war against the Tudors.

Visit historic Lichfield

Did Henry VIII love his last wife Katherine Parr?

Lady Jane Grey's execution, as imagined by painter Paul Delaroche in 1833. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Lady Jane Grey: why do we want to believe the myth?

The LibraryThe private lives of the British and the cruelty of Henry V.

9 reasons to visit Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

The truth behind ‘The Tudors’ TV show.

'The Fountain of Youth', 1546. Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Everard Digby: the man who taught Tudors to swim.

The LibraryThomas Becket and 16th-century swimming.

A Nazi serial killer and a Tudor gentleman.

Hampton Court and the Amritsar massacre.

Henry VIII, Princess Mary and William Somers

Playing the fool: Tudor jesters.