Will the Real Henry VIII Please Stand Up?
Henry VIII may be our most famous monarch, a man who still bestrides English history as mightily as he dominated his kingdom nearly 500 years ago – but how well do we really understand him?
Henry VIII
Anne of Cleves, Queen of England
Retha Warnicke uncovers the real reason for Henry VIII's divorce from his fourth wife.
The Allure of Anne
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.
Anne Boleyn, Queen of England
Retha Warnicke unravels the evidence on the rise and fall of Henry VIII's second wife.
Henry VIII's Early Foreign Policy, 1509-29
Jez Ross takes issue with the traditional view that sees the early foreign policy of the second Tudor monarch as a costly failure.
The Private Life of Henry VIII
In our Film in Context series, Greg Walker explores the wider messages of Alexander Korda’s historical classic, in terms of the opposition to Appeasement and the mood of 1933.
Marrying for Love: The Experience of Edward IV and Henry VIII
Eric Ives looks at the cases of two English monarchs who broke with convention by selecting spouses for reasons of the heart, rather than political convenience.
Henry VIII and his Church
Richard Rex argues that the main inspiration for the king's pick-and-mix religion was neither Protestant nor Catholic but Hebraic.
Henry VIII and the Invention of the Royal Court
Greg Walker challenges the view that court intrigue, favourites, 'new men' and new manners took root under the Tudor monarch.
Henry VIII and his Ministers
John Guy doubts whether policy was ever imposed on the most wilful of kings.