Sir Thomas More – saint or sinner? Well, the Catholic Church canonised him in 1935 as a martyr, and he was made patron saint ...

The programme premiered in 2007 and is set during the reign of Henry VIII. The first series became the highest-rating ...

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

Rosemary is a freelance critic, specialising in theatre, dance and visual art. She has written for the TLS, New Statesman, ...

The BBC drama, based on Dame Hilary Mantel’s final novel in her epic Tudor trilogy, returned last year with Wolf Hall: The ...

The 16th Century palace was built for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, chief minister to Henry VIII, and was the scene ... mystery of the Princes in the Tower, more than 500 years ago.

However this relationship was cut short by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey ... moments to deliver a speech praising King Henry VIII, stating that, "a more merciful prince was there never: and to me ...

After around 4 years of relative peace, the fighting resumed, and many more ... of Henry VIII’s reign, a council advised the young king. Henry then began to rely on key men such as Thomas ...

There’s a parallel to Brexit happening in A Man for All Seasons, says Gary Wilmot who plays The Common Man in former ...

OXFORD Playhouse is staging a double bill of plays from the Fifties by Terence Rattigan, followed by a production by Robert Bolt set in Tudor times. Summer 1954 – Table Number Seven and The Browning ...

The brutal 500-year history of English violence in Europe.