Tudor

Derek Wilson welcomes the emergence from the shadows of Thomas Cromwell, thanks to Hilary Mantel’s prize-winning historical novels.

Paul Lay remembers the historian and Tudor expert Eric Ives, who passed away this week.

Onyeka explores the changing meanings of words for Africans in Tudor England.

British attitudes to witchcraft during the Tudor era tended to be less extreme than those of contemporary Europeans, argues Victoria Lamb.

Mary Rose was the younger sister of Henry VIII. David Loades describes how this forgotten Tudor was something of a wild card.

Jez Ross argues that Henry VII was more secure than he realised

John Matusiak explains the nature of the power game that raged from 1540 to 1553.

Would a new Act in Restraint of Appeals such as Henry VIII enacted against Rome in 1533 achieve a similar objective for Eurosceptics today of ‘repatriating powers’ from the EU? asks Stephen Cooper.

R. E. Foster explains how law and order were institutionalised in the 16th century.

Thomas Penn examines M.J. Tucker’s article on the court of Henry VII, first published in History Today in 1969.