Tudor

Much Tudor art may not have been 'home-grown' but its form and subject matter tells us a great deal about England's 'natural rulers'.

Widowed at the age of thirteen, three months before the birth of her only child, the devout mother of Henry VII showed herself a master of political intrigue.

David Starkey visits the Lincoln Center for a night at the opera.

Rosemary Day considers Oxford and Cambridge in the Tudor and Stewart age

David Starkey looks at the early Tudor period.

The transition of Henry VIII from Renaissance monarch to the Reformation patriarch, supreme head of the Church of England can be charted through the visual images of spectacle and power emanating from the royal court.

The Tudor warship Mary Rose sank in 1545 whilst leading the attack against a French invasion fleet in the Solent. Four and a half centuries later, it was raised from the depths and now lies in drydock at Portsmouth.

David Starkey provides a historiographical guide to the fifteenth century English monarchy.