This pendant is thought to be associated with Henry VIII. An amateur detectorist discovered the locket by chance in a field in England.Dan Kitwood/Getty Images An amateur metal detectorist found a ...
A new biography explores how Hans Holbein’s portraits shaped the public image and enduring legacy of England’s most famous ...
It was a find of such magnitude that the amateur detectorist who discovered it was lost for words, and the expert who unraveled its mysteries spent two years researching it. Charlie Clarke had only ...
Rachel Delman has been researching Collyweston Palace for over a decade. Her doctoral research on the site was funded by a full Arts and Humanities Research Council award at the University of Oxford ...
Today, I am delighted to welcome Sam Mee to the blog. Sam is founder of the Antique Ring Boutique (https://antiqueringboutique.com/), based in London (hence the ...
Times change. A century ago, Henry VIII was lionized as an English patriotic icon and as one of the truly great men of history. He was praised for being highly cultured and for his love of music, and ...
Jude Russo, managing editor: Good aphorisms make bad history. At the same time, it is not entirely wrong to say that, in the Anglosphere, everything starts with the Tudors. Two of the three great ...
A vast and long-forgotten survey of Tudor England, commissioned by Henry VIII to gauge the wealth of the church he had just seized control of, is being revived in a new national project aiming to put ...
In Britain, schoolchildren learning about Tudor history are taught a handy rhyme to remember the order of King Henry VIII’s six wives: “Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.” ...
For Damian Lewis, just standing for two weddings of King Henry VIII in "Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light" was a daylong royal marathon. The English monarch is remembered for having six wives, ...
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