Room at the Top
Rosemary Day considers Oxford and Cambridge in the Tudor and Stewart age
Tudor
From Feud to Faction: English Politics 1450-1550
David Starkey looks at the early Tudor period.
Spectacle and Power: Apollo & Solomon at the Court of Henry VIII
The transition of Henry VIII from Renaissance monarch to the Reformation patriarch, supreme head of the Church of England can be charted through the visual images of spectacle and power emanating from the royal court.
The Sinking of the Mary Rose
The Tudor warship Mary Rose sank in 1545 whilst leading the attack against a French invasion fleet in the Solent. Four and a half centuries later, it was raised from the depths and now lies in drydock at Portsmouth.
Reading History: Tudor Kingship
David Starkey provides a historiographical guide to the fifteenth century English monarchy.
Sir Thomas More and the Heretics
Thomas More is often thought of as a family man who died for his principles, not as a burner of books and heretics.