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

Tudor

Queen Elizabeth II

How to be a successful monarch.

Showering, teeth brushing and donning underwear: the strange history of our daily routine.

A portrait of Elizabeth I.

The enchanting history of charisma.

Henry VIII jousting

How jousting made a man of Henry VIII.

In pictures: kings and queens through history

Dover Castle, Kent. (Photo by Olaf Protze/LightRocket via Getty Images)

England's 8 most amazing castles

Terror in Elizabethan England.

Anne Boleyn, who was executed by beheading on 19 May 1536 after being found guilty of high treason, was said to have had "much joy and pleasure in death". (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Did Anne Boleyn crave the crown?.

The perils of piety in Tudor England.

Mary I’s phantom pregnancy.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Actors in a staging of Shakepeare's 'Macbeth'

Q&AWhy don't actors refer to the Shakespeare play Macbeth by name?

A painting showing the defeat of the Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada: all at sea.

Elizabeth I: what does this forgotten portrait tell us about her?.

Magna Carta, the Roman Republic and the Enlightenment: 11 historical concepts explained in minutes.

What did people in the Tudor period eat?

7 places you (probably) didn’t know shaped the life of Anne Boleyn.

Picture of the Frost Fair on the Thames

Q&ADid the Thames used to freeze over?

The front of Shakespeare's birthplace on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.

History explorer: the young William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare and war in the Middle East.

Photo of British coins

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

Lambert Simnel

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

Thomas Cromwell’s life before Henry VIII.

Love and marriage in Tudor England

From loincloths to corsets: a brief history of underwear with Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner.

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: Suzannah Lipscomb dispels myths about the lovers who changed history.

What clothes did people wear in the Tudor period?

Holbein portrait of Henry VIII

Q&ADid Henry VIII have any illegitimate male offspring?

Bathhouse

Waking up with Plato: the history of our morning routine.

Elizabeth I and an unlikely suffragette.