During the 16th century there were occasional calls for union between England and Scotland. Some believed that the marriage ...

The effigy head of the founder of the Tudor dynasty is one of the finest examples of its kind to have survived to the present ...

Treason, tyranny, and terror are fabled words of King Henry VIII, one of history’s most controversial autocrats and ...

In November, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby (the Church's senior most figure), stepped down amid a damning report ...

Henry VII's reign was a prosperous one ... Here lies Henry the Seventh of that name, formerly King of England, son of Edmund, Earl of Richmond. 'He was created King on August 22 and immediately ...

Thought to be the work of the Italian Renaissance sculptor Pietro Torrigiano - who came to England after leaving Florence in around ... concluded that Torrigiano must have used a model from Henry ...

A remarkably lifelike effigy head of King Henry VII is currently being scanned by Westminster Abbey to try and work out how it was made and why it's so lifelike.

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...

England's only pope, Adrian IV, rose from humble beginnings to the papal throne, but no Briton has followed since.

The fascinating podcast was sparked when Dalrymple consistently heard references to Ireland while he researched Indian ...

From humble beginnings in the service of the princes of Gwynedd, the Tudor family rose steadily to royal stock. The Tudor ...