Tudor

John Matusiak referees the debate about the influence of Henry VIII’s son.

Simon Thurley explains why the first Stuarts kept the great Tudor palace virtually intact.

Marika Sherwood reveals the state of our knowledge – and ignorance – about a period of our multi-racial past.

James Williams considers hunting as the ideal pastime for the nobility in the sixteenth century.

Richard Cavendish describes James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor's wedding on August 8th, 1503.

Alison Weir, best-selling historian of the medieval and sixteenth-century royal families, explains how she first encountered the power of history in a strange feeling of identification with Anne Boleyn.

Mark Rathbone examines the varied reputation of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.

Retha Warnicke unravels the evidence on the rise and fall of Henry VIII's second wife.

Jez Ross takes issue with the traditional view that sees the early foreign policy of the second Tudor monarch as a costly failure.

John Styles marks the opening of the new British Galleries at the V&A with a look at influences and innovations during a dynamic period of design history.