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Showing posts with label Henry VIII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry VIII. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Book Spotlight and Snippet: A Matter of Time: Henry VIII, the Dying of the Light by Judith Arnopp

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  Follow the tour  HERE With youth now far behind him, King Henry VIII has only produced one infant son and two bastard daughters. More sons...
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Monday, June 4, 2018

How many executions was Henry VIII responsible for?

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History Extra It is impossible to tell for sure, and historians have no definitive number. It is estimated that anywhere from 57,000 t...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Was Henry VIII a good king?

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History Extra The success of Henry’s reign is mixed. Economically, England flourished, partially at the expense of countless monasterie...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

A Grand Gesture: Henry VIII and the Westminster Tournament

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Medievalists The Westminster Tournament Challenge, 1511, British Library, Harley 83 H I. By Natalie Anderson This Valentine’s Day,...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

How jousting made a man of Henry VIII

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History Extra How jousting made a man of Henry VIII Research suggests Henry VIII was angry, impulsive and even rendered impotent by a ...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose

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History Extra For 34 years the Mary Rose was Henry VIII’s flagship. Faced with the threat of the French navy and a strong Scottish fle...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Tudors

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History Extra 1) The Tudors should never have got anywhere near the throne When Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at the battle of Bo...
Friday, March 31, 2017

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about Henry VIII

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History Extra c1540, a portrait of King Henry VIII. An engraving by T A Dean from a painting by Hans Holbein. (Photo by Hulton Archive/...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Henry VIII: 5 places you (probably) didn’t know shaped his life

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History Extra Henry VIII. Portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1540. The painting has the inscription 'Anno Aetatis suae XLIX...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

Kings and Queens in profile: Jane Seymour

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History Extra Jane Seymour. (Popperfoto/Getty Images) Historian Elizabeth Norton tells you everything you need to know about...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Q&A: Where did the monks go after the dissolution of the monasteries?

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History Extra A 15th-century illumination shows monks praying. Some were starved to death when they refused to take Henry VIII’s Oath...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose

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History Extra Henry VIII's Mary Rose (© 19th era/Alamy) • For 34 years the Mary Rose was Henry VIII’s flagship. Faced ...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

The reluctant ambassador: the life and times of Tudor diplomat Sir Thomas Chaloner

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History Extra Sir Thomas Chaloner aged 28. (Private collection, courtesy of Richard Chaloner, Lord Gisborough. Photograph by Peter ...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

The hidden lives of Henry VIII's six wives

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History Extra Of all the contemporary accounts of Henry VIII's wives, perhaps none are more comprehensive than those left by Eust...
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