Christmas Fare
David Bates examines a Tudor Christmas Fare at Hampton Court Palace.
David Bates examines a Tudor Christmas Fare at Hampton Court Palace.
Richard Rex argues that the main inspiration for the king's pick-and-mix religion was neither Protestant nor Catholic but Hebraic.
Michael Leech on the efforts to save and excavate the site of the original Globe Theatre in London.
Pawn of elder statesmen or, as Matthew Christmas argues, another Henry VIII in the making?
Greg Walker challenges the view that court intrigue, favourites, 'new men' and new manners took root under the Tudor monarch.
Steven Gunn explores the surprising similarities between the impetuous Valois duke and the cautious Tudor pragmatist.
John Guy doubts whether policy was ever imposed on the most wilful of kings.
We eavesdrop on Ian Dawson as he interrogates the sources and wonders whether the first Tudor was really so mysterious.
Monarchs could do anything – or could they? Steven Ellis examines what happened when commands from the centre had to he executed in practice in the remoter parts of the kingdom.
Has our image of Henry VIII's elder daughter as 'Bloody Mary', burning Protestants and unhappily married to Philip of Spain, clouded our assessment of how close she came to restoring the old religion?