Celebrate me, or I shall sit on you. By the beard of Cranmer, Henry VIII is a popular fellow. The 500th anniversary of his coronation has prompted a glut of events and exhibitions that make the recent Darwin bicentenary look like a timid court jester …
Images courtesy of the City of London Corporation. Throughout April, we’re jumping on the Tudor bandwagon and exploring the history of the little-known hunt standing on the edge of Epping Forest. See here for the introduction. One of the most memorable things about Queen Elizabeth’s …
By tezzer57 Top tip from IanVisits this morning – the British Library are screening the first episode of series 3 of telly historical drama-soap-opera-reenactment programme The Tudors as part of its impending blockbuster Henry VIII: Man and Monarch season. The screening is on 28 April …
Over the next few months, King Henry VIII will loom even larger than he did in real life. It’s 500 years since the corpulent monarch first took to the throne. So many events, exhibitions and TV tie-ins are planned that we’ll all be shouting ‘come …
A proposed development near Hampton Court Palace has exercised the ire of one of our foremost historians. David Starkey, considered something of an expert on Tudor times by dint of his copious books and television series on the subject, has thrown his chalice in with …
