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Hans Holbein the Younger’s famous “Portrait of Henry VIII” is on loan to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from the ...
The July 7 event at Canterbury is evidence of a growing interest in shrines, saints and relics in the Church of England, ...
A Windsor property, once the home of an ill-fated wife of Henry VIII, will go up for auction this week. A four-bed, ...
HISTORYFor several centuries - especially from the 16th to the early 20th century - Europe’s royal families were deeply ...
A property in Windsor is heading to auction this week, which will have particular appeal for Tudor history buffs.
The discovery of rare music inside a medieval book has brought the sound of monks back to an abbey for the first time in 500 years. A performance of the “plaintive” music will be held in August at ...
Centuries ago, the site was home to St. Leonard's Hospital, a sprawling monastic facility that provided care to sick individuals and supplied meals for prisoners at nearby York Castle ...
Henry VIII’s new grammar schools and his reformed universities created a governing elite that looked more to classical Greece and Rome than to the society around them. This is something that went well ...
There are several reminders of the Tudor period across Bristol from buildings to a toilet once used by Henry VIII ...
The film, which also stars Andrea Riseborough and Jason Watkins, will be shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival ...
My regular readers will know that I love history. I also love a well-researched novel about British royalty and the Tudor ...
An Essex school, once the forgotten palace of King Henry VIII, has been honoured with a prestigious award. New Hall School, formerly a Royal residence for King Henry VIII, has received an esteemed ...