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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.

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

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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)

Books interview with Eamon Duffy: “You could call the Reformation the original Brexit” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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 Library Hugh O’Neill: Elizabeth I’s Irish nemesis

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

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The Reformation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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How could the son of Henry VIII become Edward VI?

Cardinal Wolsey going in procession to Westminster Hall. Reproduced from the original by Sir John Gilbert in 1886-7. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Through foreign eyes: the forgotten ambassadors to the Tudor court

The ill-fated 'Titanic', which sank on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Peter Snow’s six most important documents in history

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Reporting from war zones . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The secrets of 6 of Britain’s most famous castles – with Dan Jones

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Illustrations by Sarah Young, based on contemporary portraits where available

Henry VII’s brilliant upstarts: the lowborn henchmen who served the first Tudor king . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.