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

Tudor

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.

Sir Walter Raleigh, a portrait of the great favourite of Queen Elizabeth I

Q&AWhy was Sir Walter Raleigh executed?

Tudor podcast episodes

Video podcastConspiracy: was Elizabeth I a man?.

Conspiracy: was Elizabeth I a man?.

Ladies in Tudor costume in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. (Photo by Steve Vidler via Alamy)

7 things you (probably) didn't know about Tudor fashion

Anne Boleyn’s fatal French connection.

A painting of Queen Anne Boleyn, with her hair held up, and a B pendant on one of her necklaces.

Anne Boleyn’s fatal French connection.

Life of the weekMary I.

Tudor traders: keep calm and ignore the Armada.

Painting depicting the Spanish Armada

Keep calm and carry on trading: how English merchants reacted to the Spanish Armada

Alicia von Rittberg as Princess Elizabeth in Becoming Elizabeth

Becoming ElizabethThe real history behind the new Tudor drama

An illustration titled 'The first match of the British Ladies Football Club'

A brief history of women’s football: from Mary, Queen of Scots to the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

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A 1569 portrait, thought to be of Helena Snakenborg (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)

The Tudor travel bug: 6 artefacts that show the Tudors’ taste for travel.

Henry II

What happened at the French court when Henry II died?.

Anne Boleyn during her imprisonment in the Tower of London, a c1835 painting by Édouard Cibot (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Elizabeth I and Anne Boleyn: the Tudor queen’s undying love for her mother

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: the overlooked bonds between mother & daughter.

Mary RoseSecrets of the Tudor warship

Painting of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn. Several servants as well as Cardinal Wolsey look on.

From service to survival: what happened to the households of Henry VIII’s six wives?.

Q&AWhat was the fascination behind Tudor codpieces?