With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation begins, the question is: did she 'sidestep crucial matters'?

For decades, historians piled layer after layer of interpretation upon Henry VIII's astute chief ... in 1540 after six years as the King's right-hand man, and renders it (relatively) easy to ...

King Henry: You bear a burden of work no other man has carried ... a little city in its own right. So, I was given the key to this little couple of rooms where Henry VIII’s sweet makers used ...

Hilary Mantel's crafting of Cromwell as a charismatic leader matures audiences’ understanding of historical narratives, yet it raises intriguing questions about historical accuracy. While Mantel's ...

Find out who's who, where we left off with them, and how they fit into the intrigue & drama that will mesmerize you as it ...

Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...

In the long-awaited second season, Mark Rylance returns as Thomas Cromwell, a shrewd political servant to Damian Lewis' Henry ...

Catherine Parr is now best remembered for being the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII. “Divorced, beheaded, died; ...

Thornbury Castle and I have history. The old house I grew up in was linked to the Tudor castle by a secret underground ...

Here's Thomas Cromwell at New York's Frick Collection, trapped in canvas by the Tudor court painter Hans Holbein: thick ...