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

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The women behind Henry VIII's queens

Video podcastTudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens

Video podcastAnne Boleyn: a modern woman?

Katherine Parr: life of the week

Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of Elizabethan spycraft

Anne Boleyn: a modern woman?

A young Katherine Parr, by William Henry Mote.

All you need to know about Katherine Parr – the truth about the wife who 'survived'

Portrait of Katherine Parr

Katherine ParrWhy Henry VIII's sixth wife was a true firebrand

An African samurai: the tall, strong African man who acquired the name Yasuke in Japan was at first an object of curiosity but soon became a prized samurai warrior serving a powerful warlord in the violent intrigues that wracked the country during that volatile era. ((Illustration by Lynn Hatzius for BBC World Histories)

Who is Yasuke? The true story of the African who became Japan's first black samurai

Tracy Borman at Hampton Court Palace

Explore Hampton Court Palace with Professor Tracy Borman

A 19th-century painting shows Henry VIII meeting Anne Boleyn, as ladies-in-waiting and courtiers look on (Photo by Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

Inside the six wives' bedchamber: the stories of Tudor ladies-in-waiting

The Family of Henry VIII

The ultimate Tudor quiz

Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens

Historical novelist CJ Sansom

"To read a Shardlake novel is to be immersed in the turbulent world of the Tudors" | Tracy Borman reflects on the work of CJ Sansom

Shardlake: bringing the Tudor murder mystery to the screen

Anne Boleyn pays Mark Smeaton a final visit in Gaetano Donizetti's opera Anna Bolena

He was the court musician who condemned Anne Boleyn: but was Mark Smeaton telling the truth?

Portrait of Thomas Cromwell

Your guide to Thomas Cromwell

Arthur Hughes as Matthew Shardlake in Disney+ drama Shardlake

Is Shardlake a true story? The real history behind the Disney+ Tudor murder mystery

Arthur Hughes as Matthew Shardlake in Disney+ drama Shardlake

Shardlake and disability in Tudor times: seven things you need to know

The Evil May Day Riots of 1517: what happened?

Mary vs Elizabeth: sisters at war

Margaret Beaufort, shown in a c16th‐century oil on panel painting

Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors

How was Elizabeth I shaped by her childhood?

Elizabethans quiz – week three

Plots and Rebellions, with Professor Tracy Borman

Elizabeth I

"Elizabeth was certainly no feminist": Tracy Borman on the Elizabethans

Portrait of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII

Anne Boleyn: your guide to the life and death of Henry VIII's second queen – plus 11 little-known facts

Elizabethans quiz – week two

Elizabethan Daily Life, with Professor Tracy Borman

The execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche

The curse of the nine-day queen