Life in Tudor England was hard and you had to be tough and lucky to survive. There was a very high infant mortality rate, around 14 percent died before their first birthday, and women had a ...

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

Historians can trace the lives of over 200 people of African origin who lived in England during the Tudor period. These individuals did a variety of jobs and lived in different places, from cities ...

The dispute took place during the birth of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. While Henry did not become a Protestant, in ...

The BBC also understands that at a service in 2018, Mr Cottrell referred to Tudor as a "Rolls Royce priest" even though he ...

These are my favourites. This is the only Tudor castle in England in which you can stay the night, perhaps even sleep in the very bedchamber that housed Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn for 10 days in 1535.

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