Tudor

Henry VIII and the Lords of the Council

‘Pastime with good company’ – how the image of ‘Bluff King Hal’ glosses over the harsh realities of life-and-death court intrigues played out among the nooks and crannies of the king’s private apartment.

Estates, Degrees and Sorts in Tudor and Stuart England

'Take but degree away... and hark what discord follows' was a Tudor and Stuart commonplace but the neatness and fixity of what we think of as their social order is a creation of historians.

Tudor and Stuart England

J A Sharpe looks into the work carried out by social historians.

Inflation and the Moral Order

The new phenomenon of inflation in 16th-century England not only disrupted the medieval social order, it also challenged the traditional moral censure of usury and capital expansion.

'The holie companie of heven': Henry VII's Chapel

Transition in art and kingship, between medieval and Renaissance Europe, characterises the first Tudor's memorial.

The Welshness of the Tudors

Without their Welsh connections, the Tudors could never have made good their rags-to-riches ascent to the English throne, argues Peter R. Roberts.

Tudor Collections and Collectors

Much Tudor art may not have been 'home-grown' but its form and subject matter tells us a great deal about England's 'natural rulers'.

Lady Margaret Beaufort

Widowed at the age of thirteen, three months before the birth of her only child, the devout mother of Henry VII showed herself a master of political intrigue.