Suffolk Place: Tudor Southwark’s Des-Res
Sometimes I get ridiculously fixated on knowing more about a lost Tudor building; it gets under my skin and won’t…
Old London Bridge: Traders, Travellers & Traitors
What if you could time-travel to Tudor London? What places would be on your ‘must see’ list? I have a…
Oatlands Palace and its Ill-Fated, Summer Bride
Early on what must have been a cold February morning in 1542, just after sunrise, a young woman walked out…
Bradgate House & The Murderous Ambition of a Tudor Family
Perhaps there was never such a sad and desolate figure in Tudor history as the diminutive Lady Jane Grey, the…
Bolton Castle and the Vengeful Prisoner of Wensleydale
Cover image: Bolton Castle in Wensleydale, by kind permission of Anita Watson. In the last post, we followed in the…
Shakespeare Hotspots: 12 Must-See Places!
Do you simply love William Shakespeare? Are you crazy for The Bard? If so, England represents the pinnacle of Shakespeare country….
Baddesley Clinton: Murder, Loyalty and Treason in Tudor England
NB: Baddesley Clinton Cover image via Wikimedia Commons, by localpref: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 There is something singularly beautiful…
Compton Wynyates: The Most Perfect & Secret Tudor House in England?
If you LOVE Tudor buildings, then I can guarantee that the subject of this blog is going to make you…
Sudeley Castle: The Remarkable Life, and Shocking Death, of Katherine Parr
This post contains some affiliate links During her lifetime, Katherine Parr was a truly remarkable woman; and yet in death,…
Tudor Waltham Abbey: The Forgotten Royal Citadel
Isn’t it delicious to learn something you didn’t know before about a Tudor location? The odds are that today’s blog…