Tudor

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.

L.W. Cowie describes the wedding of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon on November 14th, 1501.

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.

Duncan Wilson looks at the history of the Strand site.

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.

Steven Gunn looks at the condition of Britain at the beginning of the Tudor era, and finds a society that was increasingly cohesive, confident and cosmopolitan.