so Sidney came from the highest echelons of Tudor society. Sidney himself was famed and feted as the perfect courtier-poet, before dying in battle at the age of 31. You can see the strawberry ...

The Tudor expert is the new chief historian at the Historic Royal Palaces, and the BBC spent the day with her at the home of ...

Historian John Davies on society and culture in Tudor Wales. In 1536 Wales had about 278,000 inhabitants. The number had risen to around 360,000 in 1620 and to perhaps 500,000 by 1750. The chief ...

Research has shown that Tudor society was more diverse than is often assumed and that there were people from a range of ethnic backgrounds living in England in the 16th Century. Some of the first ...

The childhood home of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and his family of well-known Shakespearean ...