It surveys the art, taste, and, here and there, the politics of the Tudor dynasty. It begins, personality-wise, with Henry VII, who emerges as king after a savage civil war -- the War of the Roses ...

The Tudor era saw unprecedented upheaval in England. Between them the five Tudor kings and queens introduced huge changes that are still with us today. The years between the crowning of Henry VII ...

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Judging by the slew of new Tudor-inspired films and TV shows hitting our screens, there is apparently no other period in history. Sorry, not sorry. Just as the Roman ...

The Tudor royal dynasty began with King Henry VII acceding to the throne of England, Wales and Ireland in 1485, and ended with the childless death of Elizabeth I in 1603. They are famed for taking ...

Historian John Davies looks at the impact of the Wars of the Roses on the lead-up to the accession of Henry VII and the beginning of the Tudor dynasty. Between the 1450s and the 1480s, the ...

The lifelike funeral effigy head of Henry VII, the father of Henry VIII and founder of the Tudor dynasty, is considered one of the finest of its kind to have survived to the present day.

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Historian John Davies looks at the impact of the Wars of the Roses on the lead-up to the accession of Henry VII and the beginning of the Tudor dynasty. Between the 1450s and the 1480s, the ...