This week's #MondayMartyr is the Abbot of Reading who went from royal chaplain to being hanged at his abbey.#dissolution #tudorhistory #readingabbey #henryviiiYou can find my books on Amazon at http

Henry VIII's great matter, his quest for an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, caused him to break with Rome and was the beginning of the English Reformation. However, Henry chose to ma

It is a myth that Anne Boleyn always wore the French hood. Let me explain...Find out more athttps://www.tudorsociety.com/anne-boleyn-gable-hood/

This week, I'm looking at an illustration from the 1534 Black Book of the Garter and how it's linked to Queen Anne Boleyn. You can see this video on YouTube at https://youtube.com/shorts/ZNVOc7Z8U3cF

In this week's #MondayMartyr, I'm telling you about four Catholic martyrs, who were executed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. #tudorhistoryYou can find my books on Amazon at http://viewauthor.at/cl

Find out about a special New Year's gift Anne Boleyn commissioned from Hans Holbein the Younger for Henry VIII.#holbein #tudorhistory #tudorart #henryviiiYou can find my books on Amazon at http://vi

In this week's #portraittuesday, I look at the beautiful Anne Boleyn roundel portrait that is part of the collection at Hever Castle.You can see this portrait here...https://youtube.com/shorts/anJYa

This week's Monday Martyr is reformer James Bainham, who was burnt at the stake at Smithfield on 30th April 1532, in the reign of King Henry VIII. #henryviii #toweroflondon #tudorhistory #reformation

This week's #mondaymartyr is Protestant martyr William Flower (known also as Branch) who was burnt at the stake for heresy at St Margaret's Church in Westminster, London, on this day in Tudor history,

This short video is based on the livestream I did called The Making of a King: Henry VIIIs Education and Upbringing, in which I mentioned how Henrys education changed when he went from spare to he