A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

The likes of Wolf Hall, adapted by two of Hilary Mantel's best-selling books, capture this perfectly, gripping viewers with ...

Behind the stately façades of Britain’s grandest historical homes and royal residences lies a catalogue of chaos. From ...

Cod bones from Mary Rose reveal globalized fish trade in Tudor England Date: September 8, 2015 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: New analysis shows warship's dried fish provisions were ...

Historian and television presenter Lucy Worsley brings us back to the 16th century to discuss the history of Tudor England and King Henry VIII. ... She becomes Lady Mary rather than Princess Mary.

Harry Melling as Thomas Wriothesley in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. Thomas Wriothesley: A clever, ambitious bureaucrat with a sharp legal mind. He once worked for Stephen Gardiner, who is ...

The Princess MARY of CAMBRIDGE was born in 1832. Since she has been of marriageable age, at least a dozen royal branches have sprung up between her and any possible way of succession to the ...

The events of Wolf Hall season 2 are three years after Mary was declared illegitimate.In the first episode, Mary has been arguing for her legitimacy as a Princess.It is Thomas Cromwells mission to ...

Queen-Making: Catherine of Aragon, Princess Mary and the Reigning Queens of Spain by Dr ... Dr Elizabeth Norton is a London-based historian specialising in the queens of England and the Tudor ...

She is depicted as defiant and disdainful, a woman who has to be threatened into writing to Mary in a bid to save the princess from the axe. In reality, Pole had been Mary’s governess from May 1520.

Wolf Hall: Princess Mary was not so alone in her fight against her father, Henry VIII, as the TV series would like you to believe. ... 1541 due to the treasonous activities of her sons, and Henry VIII ...