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

Tudor

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An 1864 illustration depicts King Henry VI and the Dukes of York and Somerset, after York's return from Ireland in 1450. Artist James William Edmund Doyle. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Wars of the Roses: York v Beaufort?

The real history behind ‘The White Princess’

Historian David Starkey.

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What are Henry VIII powers?

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King Arthur feasting at Camelot

Q&AHow old is the ‘British Empire’?

Portrait depicting Mary, Queen of Scots.

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How did Henry VII spend his money?

Jane Austen and Tudor London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A map of London dating from c1572. (Getty Images)

Life in Tudor London

Anne Boleyn in the Tower

Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I in their own words: 5 fascinating letters from Tudor monarchs

Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Henry VIII's savage Reformation

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Queen Victoria’s dinners and Henry VIII’s niece. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Engraving of Henry VIII, king of England (Photo by Getty)

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A view of Hampton Court Palace, London. (Getty Images)

Simon Thurley on the architectural history of the Tudors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Who decided Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, should be executed?

Martin Luther (centre) preaching. With one hand he points to popes, monks and cardinals going down the mouth of hell; with the other he points to the crucifix. (Getty Images)

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Terracotta vicar and Moses, c1770, in the Victoria And Albert Museum, London. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Vicars on the liquor

Irish national hero Hugh O'Neill, the 2nd Earl of Tyrone, makes a formal submission to the English following the suppression of his Irish rebellion, 1603. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The LibraryHugh O'Neill: Elizabeth I’s Irish nemesis

Bribes, gifts and scandal: 7 stories of corruption that shocked Britain

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Bombay, the East India Company's port on the Malabar Coast of India, 1755. Company trading vessels are depicted in the foreground and quayside warehouses and buildings behind. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The chaotic conquest of India

View of Algiers with mediterranean galleys, published in Johannes van Keulen's Dutch Atlas, 1709. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

When Britons were slaves in Africa

How could the son of Henry VIII become Edward VI?

Through foreign eyes: the forgotten ambassadors to the Tudor court

Peter Snow’s six most important documents in history

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