Not Just the Tudors

Best known for St. Paul’s Cathedral, Christopher Wren was the greatest architect Britain has ever known. But he was so m... Read more

Books belonging to Henry VIII, Richard III, Mary I and Edward VI are among the treasures in the historic library of the ... Read more

Seymour, Dudley and Parr are all well-known Tudor names. But often, behind the more famous men in those families, there ... Read more

How did an enslaved East African man become Japan’s first foreign samurai, and the only ever samurai of African descent?... Read more

Artemisia Gentileschi was the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century, as famous in her lifetime as Reubens o... Read more

How meaningful can a gift - especially of a book - be? In the fickle world of the Tudor court, the strategic gifting of ... Read more

In the sixteenth century, religious beliefs underwent a dramatic change. As differences between the late medieval Roman ... Read more

The name Ivan the Terrible is synonymous with brutality and ruthlessness. While Western scholars insist that the first c... Read more

From the mid-15th century to the mid-16th century, there were 10 Queens Consort of England, from Margaret of Anjou to Ka... Read more

As Queen Elizabeth I lays dying, King James VI of Scotland is waiting to accede to the throne of England. But who will t... Read more