Old St Paul’s: The Tudor Rose and the Spanish Pomegranate Entwine – Part I
Katherine of Aragon Marries Arthur, Prince of Wales In the run-up to the release of the TV series, The Spanish…
Katherine of Aragon Marries Arthur, Prince of Wales In the run-up to the release of the TV series, The Spanish…
Sometimes, the lesser-known Tudor locations are the most fascinating. When we read about them, it is like opening a whole…
Which Tudor royal, or royals, do you most associate with Ludlow Castle? If you are anything like me, the first…
Sometimes I get ridiculously fixated on knowing more about a lost Tudor building; it gets under my skin and won’t…
Early on what must have been a cold February morning in 1542, just after sunrise, a young woman walked out…
Perhaps there was never such a sad and desolate figure in Tudor history as the diminutive Lady Jane Grey, the…
There is something strangely compelling about making a pilgrimage to the site from which your Tudor heroine or hero departed…
Cover image: Bolton Castle in Wensleydale, by kind permission of Anita Watson. In the last post, we followed in the…
Do you simply loveย William Shakespeare? Are you crazy for The Bard? If so, England represents the pinnacle of Shakespeare country….
NB: Baddesley Clinton Cover image via Wikimedia Commons, by localpref: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 There is something singularly beautiful…