If houses could be Hollywood starlets, then Theobalds, in Hertfordshire, (actually pronounced ‘Tibbles’) would most certainly make the grade! It…
NOTE: If you are looking for the images associated with this month’s podcast on Berkeley Castle, scroll down until you…
Acton Court is an exquisite example of a courtier’s house from the early Tudor period. I will say more about…
In the early hours of the morning, on 25 January 1533, the slight figure of a woman made her way…
Inside an incongruous parish church, in the small Suffolk town of Framlingham, lie some of the most magnificent Tudor tombs…
How would you like to explore a Tudor time capsule? Kenninghall is one such place, even though there is little…
This week I am revisiting Hever Castle in Kent, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn. I went along on a…
Thomas Wolsey was a lucky man. Accused of treason, he narrowly avoided Henry VIII’s ‘justice’ on the scaffold and instead…
In the story of Wolsey’s final days on Earth, Sheffield Manor (situated in Sheffield Park) is a pivotal location. It…
As the deepening chill of late autumn crept icily across the Yorkshire countryside, a cavalcade of men on horseback, headed…
