Queen Elizabeth I set all the trends at court - including her sugar-rotted teeth. Famous for her love of sugar and all things ...

Read our beginners' guide to the turbulent events of the Tudor era before seeing Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical *SIX* in ...

The Tudor Prophecy by Julie Strong transports readers to the vivid, dangerous world of Reformation-era England. The plot twists and turns i ...

The BBC drama, based on Dame Hilary Mantel’s final novel in her epic Tudor trilogy, returned last year with Wolf Hall: The ...

With stories set in Ancient Rome, Gilded Age New York, and more, these are the most anticipated historical fiction books of ...

But one lesser-known and sometimes forgotten association with Royalty can be found in the south Essex town of Rayleigh. The historic market town, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book, has a close ...

Rosemary is a freelance critic, specialising in theatre, dance and visual art. She has written for the TLS, New Statesman, ...

A popular murder mystery show has been brutally axed after just one series on screens. Shardlake, starring Arthur Hughes and ...

and the BBC spent the day with her at the home of Henry VIII. Sitting in her office at Hampton Court Palace, once the residence of the Tudor king, his wives and children, Prof Borman recalls how ...

The musicals and plays opening in Lancaster County theaters in February will take audiences to such varied eras as the early days of Christendom, 15th-century Paris, and Regency and Renaissance ...

I got hooked on history when I was in Prep 4, learning about Roman England, the Norman Conquest, the War of the Roses and – who could forget – the infamous Henr ...