Henry VII and Charles the Bold - Brothers Under the Skin?
Steven Gunn explores the surprising similarities between the impetuous Valois duke and the cautious Tudor pragmatist.
Tudor
Henry VIII and his Ministers
John Guy doubts whether policy was ever imposed on the most wilful of kings.
Henry VII: Out of the Shadows?
We eavesdrop on Ian Dawson as he interrogates the sources and wonders whether the first Tudor was really so mysterious.
Frontiers and Power in the Early Tudor State
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.
Mary Tudor and the Re-Catholicisation of England
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?
Good Friends and Brothers? Francis I and Henry VIII
Glenn Richardson profiles the French king's relationship with Henry VIII and the cultural PR and diplomacy that went with it.
Courtship in Tudor England
With a hey nonny-no - but the courtship of Elizabethan lads and lasses was not quite as buccolic as the madrigals suggest, as Eric Carlson explains.
Sutton House - A New Lease of Life
Michael Leech on a Tudor revival in the East End
Tudor Kitchens at Hampton Court
The early Renaissance royal palace on the Thames
Henry VIII as Military Commander
Top gun? Alexander McKee assesses Henry VIII's prowess as a commander by land and sea in the light of his 1545 campaigns against the French.