Henry VIII was brought up as a devout Catholic. In the early years of his reign he attended mass five times a day and his most trusted adviser was the head of the Catholic Church in England, Cardinal ...
Most anti-Brexit polemic is so inane, banal and stultifyingly dull that it hardly warrants the time and effort of a response. Occasionally, however, we come across a piece of rhetoric which is clever ...
Why is Lucy Worsley whispering from beneath her Tudor-era burgonet helmet, dressed as a Yeoman of the Guard and spilling royal beans? Because she’s placed herself at the first encounter, circa 1522, ...
The typical tale told by Protestant apologists is that the Catholic Church in England at the end of the Middle Ages was all but dead. The people longed for a simple, Bible-based religion free of all ...
Five hundred years ago Martin Luther, a German monk, attacked the Catholic Church in a move that sparked the Protestant Reformation. The effects are still being felt in Britain today – from the ...
It is commonplace to attribute the birth of the Church of England to Henry VIII's desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. Bernard, professor of early modern history at the ...
Lucy Worsley investigates the inside story of the English Reformation. Lucy Worsley investigates the inside story of the English Reformation. Was Henry VIII's desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon and ...
"I do not choose anyone to have it in his power to command me, nor will I ever suffer it." Many consider Henry to have been a dilettante king, letting his ministers run the country while he hunted ...
Henry VIII was brought up as a devout Catholic. In the early years of his reign he attended mass five times a day and his most trusted adviser was the head of the Catholic Church in England, Cardinal ...
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