Edward VI
Rocked by rebellion: the short, unhappy reign of Edward VI
As Tory writers reflected on the safe passage of the Stuart dynasty through the Exclusion Crisis of 1679-81, an anonymous…
The machinations of the Dudleys make Game of Thrones look tame
This is the gripping story of the ever-fluctuating fortunes of three generations of the Dudley dynasty, servants to — and…
John Knox: like the blast of 500 trumpets
John Knox, Cranmer complained, was ‘one of those unquiet spirits, which can like nothing but that is after their own…
Game of thrones: five kings spanning five centuries launch a new series on royalty
Nigel Jones reviews the first five titles to appear in a new series on British monarchs
Wonders written on the wall
‘Take away, utterly extinct and destroy all shrines … pictures, paintings and all other monuments of feigned miracles, pilgrimages, idolatry…
Tudor, by Leanda de Lisle - review
The Tudors, England’s most glamorous ruling dynasty, were self-invented parvenus, with ‘vile and barbarous’ origins, Anne Somerset reminds us
