Book Review: Hardwick Hall
/The great old fortress of good taste, Hardwick Hall, is the focus of a beautiful new anthology of essays on the place's storied art and architecture
Read MoreBook Review: The Lost Tudor Princess
/The little-known matriarch of modern British monarchy, the headstrong niece of King Henry VIII, is the subject of an absorbing new biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Rise of Thomas Cromwell
/Hilary Mantel's two famous novels have fueled the centuries-old curiosity about King Henry VIII's notorious minister Thomas Cromwell: was he a saint, Satan, or a civil servant? A magnificent new study attempts to sift fact from fiction
Read MoreBook Review: Watch the Lady
/Penelope Devereux inspired a poet and may well have inspired a failed coup in Elizabethan England - and now she inspires a richly-detailed novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Tapestry
/Joanna Stafford - niece of an executed man and distant cousin to King Henry VIII - is called to court, where she immediately becomes the focal point of deadly intrigues
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Tudors: We Seymours
/Suzannah Dunn's new novel takes readers inside the lives and tensions of the Tudor era's Seymour clan - including the timid, practical daughter who will become Queen of England
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Read MoreKeeping Up with the Tudors: Him Again
/In the famous jingle 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived,' Katherine Parr comes last - the sixth wife of King Henry VIII. But she was far more than that - scholar, regent, and passionate young woman - as a new Tudor historical novel attempts to portray
Read MoreKeeping Up With The Tudors: Peace, Plenty, Love, Truth, Terror
/A debut novel of alternate history spins out one of the most tantalizing hypotheticals of the past: what if Anne Boleyn had managed to give King Henry VIII a healthy male heir? Some of the answers - and some of the resulting mysteries - may surprise you.
Read MoreBook Review: The Creation of Anne Boleyn
/She's an icon, a cautionary tale, a baleful notoriety - she's Anne Boleyn, who bewitched a king and drove him to remake a world, all for the sake of a dream she could never give him. A fascinating new book looks at the way all the ways history has made and re-made Henry VIII's most infamous queen
Read MoreDivorce Corps
/History's most famous divorce shook the world and changed history, but it took much more than a king snapping his fingers to make it happen - obscure men on fast horses risked their livelihoods and their lives to line up the paperwork.
Read MoreKeeping Up With the Tudors: Lizard on a Rock
/He survived years of dangerous exile, won his crown on the battlefield, and founded one of the most famous dynasties in human history - and yet we still haven't embraced Henry VII. A spirited biography seeks to change that.
Read MoreBook Review: Mary I
/A quietly stunning new biography of England's infamous "Bloody Mary"
Read MoreWife Number Five
/Teenage Catherine Howard weds the older and ailing Henry VIII to serve her family's ambition, and uses her status to take lovers of her own - risking everything. Novelist Suzannah Dunn spins a fine tale out of the girl's brief rise and fall.
Read MoreMay the Devil Be His Companion
/There was talk that Elizabeth I might make her favorite, Robert Dudley, king - if he weren't already married. When he wife suddenly died, court and country cried foul, and an immortal mystery was born: what really happened to Amy Robsart?
Read More“For I am a Brid of Paradise”
/The kings and counts of Tudor England wouldn’t have known the name of minor Cheshire landowner Humphrey Newton, but in reviewing Deborah Youngs’ book on the man, Steve Donoghue illustrates just how much Newton can teach us about the era. “A Year with the Tudors” concludes here.
Read MoreWhen You See Me, You Know Me
/As Steve Donoghue writes, the epitome of what a monarch can be was embodied in the massive form of Henry VIII, and not a year passes without another biographer struggling to tackle the man and his legacy. 2007 was no different….
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