Tudor

Sir John Gage and part of The Keep manuscript fragment

Henry VIII's dissolution enforcer stashed a dangerous Catholic manuscript

17 Sep 2026

The identification of six lost pages of a medieval bestseller – illicitly prized by Catholics in the Reformation – exposes the split loyalties of one...

Left: © Mat Collishaw, Mask of Youth, 2018; Right: © The Singh Twins: www.singhtwins.co.uk,Trade Wars: Elizabeth I (Slaves of Fashion series), 2018.

Exhibition explores Tudor legacies in contemporary art

20 Feb 2026

‘Tudor Contemporary’, the first multidisciplinary exhibition to focus on the legacies of Tudor history and art in contemporary artistic practice is on...

Thomas Cromwell painted by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1532-3. The Frick Collection

Trinity College prayer book belonged to Thomas Cromwell, new research suggests

09 Jun 2023

The Hardouyn Hours, a jewelled fifteenth-century prayer book in Trinity College Library belonged to Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to King Henry VIII...

Henry VIII statue on the Great Gate of Trinity College Cambridge

Katherine Parr did not persuade Henry VIII to found Trinity College Cambridge

17 May 2022

King Henry VIII had already made up his mind to found Trinity College Cambridge and Christ Church Oxford before Cambridge lobbied his queen, a re...

Queen Elizabeth I by unknown continental artist (c.1575), NPG 2082. Image: The National Portrait Gallery, London

Queen Elizabeth I would tell Boris to tax the rich rather than cut universal credit, a new book argues

11 Oct 2021

A new book about how Covid-19 rocked the world argues that Elizabeth I would have supported the poor in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Dinner time in St Pancras Workhouse, London, 1911. Workhouses, established under the Poor Law Amendment Act, were part of a Victorian programme that cut universal welfare support and stigmatised many poor people as “unproductive”.

Cutting welfare to protect the economy ignores lessons of history, researchers claim

02 Dec 2016

Amid ongoing welfare cuts, researchers argue that investment in health and social care have been integral to British economic success since 1600.

King’s College Chapel: A History and Commentary by John Saltmarsh

King’s College Chapel: an architectural masterpiece and the man who told its story

16 Dec 2015

Five hundred years ago the masons working on one of the world’s most famous buildings completed the stonework of a chapel conceived some 70 years...

Detail of one of the triumphal arches built for the entrance of James I to London in March 1603, devised by Stephen Harrison and engraved by William Kip. Photograph by Michael Fleming.

Wondering what to pack for university? A guitar, perhaps, for the “refresshynge of the witte”?

24 Sep 2015

What to take to university is a question foremost in the minds of thousands of freshers up and down the country. Christopher Page’s latest book ‘The...

Left: The Mary Rose as depicted in the Anthony Roll. Right: one of the cod bones used in the study.

Cod bones from Mary Rose reveal globalised fish trade in Tudor England

09 Sep 2015

New analysis shows warship’s dried fish provisions were sourced from as far away as Icelandic and possibly even transatlantic waters. Researchers show...

Tudor

Henry VIII's dissolution enforcer stashed a dangerous Catholic manuscript

Exhibition explores Tudor legacies in contemporary art

Trinity College prayer book belonged to Thomas Cromwell, new research suggests

Katherine Parr did not persuade Henry VIII to found Trinity College Cambridge

Queen Elizabeth I would tell Boris to tax the rich rather than cut universal credit, a new book argues

Cutting welfare to protect the economy ignores lessons of history, researchers claim

King’s College Chapel: an architectural masterpiece and the man who told its story

Wondering what to pack for university? A guitar, perhaps, for the “refresshynge of the witte”?

Cod bones from Mary Rose reveal globalised fish trade in Tudor England

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