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Portrait of King Henry VIII, Jane Seymour and Prince Edward. (Photo by Getty Images)

Tudor

Diarmaid MacCulloch

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The Spanish Armada: all at sea. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I: what does this forgotten portrait tell us about her?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Magna Carta, the Roman Republic and the Enlightenment: 11 historical concepts explained in minutes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What did people in the Tudor period eat?

7 places you (probably) didn’t know shaped the life of Anne Boleyn. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&ADid the Thames used to freeze over?

History explorer: the young William Shakespeare. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shakespeare and war in the Middle East. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWhy do we have the letters 'FD' on our coins?

Lambert Simnel: Richard III’s heir who 'had a stronger claim to the throne than Henry VII'

Thomas Cromwell’s life before Henry VIII. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Love and marriage in Tudor England

From loincloths to corsets: a brief history of underwear with Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: Suzannah Lipscomb dispels myths about the lovers who changed history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What clothes did people wear in the Tudor period?

Q&ADid Henry VIII have any illegitimate male offspring?

Waking up with Plato: the history of our morning routine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I and an unlikely suffragette. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Debating British monarchy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life as a Tudor gent: the 16th-century diary of Humphrey Newton. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

‘What did a Tudor coffin look like?’: the weird and wonderful world of a Wolf Hall adviser. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wolf Halls: take a look inside the properties where the new BBC series is filmed

Henry VIII and Henry the Young King. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Books interview with John Guy: "Henry VIII had a mindset that you might associate with Stalin or Mao". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wolf Hall and medieval civil war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Cromwell enigma: Hilary Mantel and Diarmaid MacCulloch on Wolf Hall's complex hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AHow many executions was Henry VIII responsible for?

Mary I: a highly impressive queen cut off in her prime

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