Historians can trace the lives of over 200 people of African origin who lived in England during the Tudor period. These individuals did a variety of jobs and lived in different places, from cities to ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Joanne Paul, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Sussex, to discuss her new book, The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England. They ...

In 1596, in rural Gloucestershire not far from the Welsh border, Sir Edward Wynter, a local lord with a deserved reputation for violence—he had killed a man in a duel and raided in the Caribbean with ...

Why did thousands join Kett’s Rebellion in 1549? Discover the causes, key moments and its impact on Tudor England.

The coinage of Queen Mary I, who ruled from 1553 to 1558, offers a rare glimpse into Tudor England. Her coins reflect not only her reign but also the turbulent politics and religion of the time. Today ...

They "like to dress up," said Helena Nordstrom, director of communications at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Legion of Honor is hosting an exhibit dedicated to showcasing the art of ...

It was a consequential 118 years. Emerging after England’s War of the Roses, the Tudor dynasty — lasting from 1485 to 1603 — saw only three generations rule the country. And yet it was a time of major ...

The entrance to the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” is dominated by a pair of bronze angels bearing candlesticks and an imposing nine foot high ...

No sex please, it’s Saturday, or Wednesday, or maybe it’s Lent or Advent. In Tudor England, the Church imposed sexual abstinence several days a week, as well as feast days and fast days. Even for ...

It is worth considering the English Resistance to the Tudor Terror in the hope that it will inspire similar holiness and heroism today. Vincenzo Carducci ...