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A portrait of Anne Boleyn

Why did Henry VIII send Anne Boleyn to the block?

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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?

A detailed Persian miniature painting showing a central figure seated on a raised platform beneath a decorated canopy, surrounded by a halo of flames. Attendants and courtiers in colourful robes and turbans sit or stand around them, with trays of food, vessels, and fans arranged in the scene. Stylized hills, flowers, and animals fill the background, all rendered in intricate patterns and bright colours.

12 modern trends with surprisingly ancient roots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Amy James-Kelly as Anne Boleyn (right) in Netflix's Blood, Sex & Royalty.

Anne Boleyn’s voice: lost to the past, or louder than ever?

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

A collage of images showing a woman in a red and brown dress, with her arms around a small child to her left. Behind them is a large building, some ships and a crowd of people

Meet the incredible woman who saved Portugal's Jews. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portraits of Anne Boleyn and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

Anne Boleyn and Cardinal Wolsey’s deadly grudge match. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Anne Boleyn

The three French queens who inspired Anne Boleyn. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This Roman mosaic depicts Orestes and Iphigenia, with Iphigenia holding a small statue of Artemis — imagery drawn from Greek myth and popular across the Roman world. Mosaics like this often decorated the floors of bath complexes and latrines, where vibrant storytelling scenes enlivened communal spaces.

Ancient Roman culture would be baffling to modern eyes – and their toilet habits prove it

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A late 16th century portrait of Anne Boleyn (c.1500-1536)

Q&ADid Anne Boleyn have six fingers on one hand?

"It was the greatest act of violence for 66 million years": why the modern world was born of bloodshed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Should period dramas reflect modern sensibilities? (Photo by Hugh Cowling)

Should period dramas reflect modern sensibilities?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A surreal cartoon by illustrator Kate Hazell. The image depicts a peaceful, smiling figure in the middle of a pond, listening to the sounds of nature around them: a squealing pig, a honking goose, a buzzing bee and a thunderstorm.

Seek out the sounds of nature, like our early modern forebears. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What are the best history podcasts? These picks are the perfect way step into the past

A hand holding a knife with a rose blooming from the handle

‘She didn’t cry’: how this Tudor woman’s lack of emotion condemned her to death

My history heroMary Archer chooses Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Our illustration shows Thomas Boleyn, whose flair for diplomacy and mastery of languages made him one of Henry VIII's most trusted ambassadors. (Illustration by Sean McSorley)

Thomas Boleyn: why Anne Boleyn's father was more than a grasping courtier

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A woman wearing a black dress and white hood, praying in front of a Bible

Married three times by the age of 15: Margaret Beaufort, the woman who birthed the Tudor Dynasty. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.