Our The Tudors Poster is a great educational resource that will help you create relevant and engaging History classrooms.
Take this Wives of Henry VIII Quiz to determine which of the six wives of King Henry VIII you are most like.
Just look at the details on that dress. Seriously, zoom in! Fashion trends have always been cyclical, and the latest inspiration may be coming from the ‘90s, the 1590s that is. The Tutor period marked not only a time of economic prosperity but also developments in the arts, notably in fashion and textiles. The French…
Prologue The Tudor Period: age of intrigues and plots. The roughly eighty years of the Tudor period have not made substantial changes, period,...
This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious virtue and a thriving cultural landscape, at once familiar and alien to the modern reader. John Matusiak sets out to shed new light on the lives and times of the Tudors by exploring the […]
A history of royal fashion, the Tudors. Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were considered the original power dressers!
(I’ll try to add the other two wives soon, unless someone beats me to it! I know this may not be Katherine Howard’s portrait, but the other alternative d...
As I have been working my way through the Tudor era I have been doing further research on the puzzling white band that appears in many early Tudor portraits. The result is this rather long post. I …
Detail of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, by Titian, 1533, shown wearing a codpiece with short doublet, Museo del Prado. You only need to have a gander at the armour that Henry VIII used to wear to see how proud he was of his nether regions. Indeed, during his reign, one of the most important fash
Let me start off by saying this letter from Anne may be real, or it may be a fake. The original copy of this letter no longer exists, however, the story goes that a copy was found among Thomas Cro…
Explore the Tudor period with our eBook, related activity resources and printable classroom display materials! This comprehensive pack contains everything you need to teach your children about Tudor life.
King Henry VIII had six wives, but none of them have captured the public's imagination like the second, Anne Boleyn.
Here's everything you need to know about Margaret Tudor, Catherine of Aragon's sister-in-law on The Spanish Princess.
Our Monarchs and the Crowns They Wore.
Follow in the footsteps of a day in the life of Anne Boleyn as you accompany the queen on the 1535 progress, as one of her ladies in waiting.
An exhibition at the Met features 100-plus paintings, sculptures, decorative works and objects that testify to the splendor of 16th-century English court
As I have been working my way through the Tudor era I have been doing further research on the puzzling white band that appears in many early Tudor portraits. The result is this rather long post. I …
Have you ever wondered what did kings and queens really look like? You've undoubtedly asked what did the Tudors look like since there are numerous movies and TV shows about them. I watch tons of shows based on the history of Europe. Heck, who doesn't? Shows ranging from Da Vinci's Demons to Tudors have become
Just yesterday, Katie and I were discussing how Elizabeth Gaskill ( Cranford , North & South , Wives & Daughters ) should be classified. Even though I knew she wrote in the mid 1800s, I figured she had to be Victorian because of the concern shared by the townspeople about the hairless cow,
King Richard III, the last English king to die in battle, was likely kneeling or prone on the battlefield when the fatal blow came.
The first wife of Henry VIII, Katherine of Aragon, was also the longest in that position. In the end they were married over two decades before Henry married
As I have been working my way through the Tudor era I have been doing further research on the puzzling white band that appears in many early Tudor portraits. The result is this rather long post. I …
When you look at the works of the great masters like Rembrandt, Botticelli, Rubens, Holbein and a bunch of others, it seems like the reality portrayed there couldn’t be further from today.
Elizabethan and Tudor Make-Up: The use of cosmetics was not popular during the early part of the Tudor period, the use of perfumes and lotions however was.
Revealed! The spectacular royal party held in honour of Charles V at Canterbury Cathedral just prior to the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520.
Something I had done years ago on A4 size paper. I think I skipped a few due to lack of space. Kings and Queens of England (after king Henry IV)
Anne of Cleaves has a historically bad rap, this is in no small part because she will forever be remembered as Henry VIIIs ‘ugly’ wife; ‘the Flanders Mare’. Which seems pret…
There are few accounts of Anne Boleyn’s last words, but do we know what she really said? The 19th of May is the anniversary of the execution of Anne Boleyn. It is an event that history will n…
An exhibition at the Met features 100-plus paintings, sculptures, decorative works and objects that testify to the splendor of 16th-century English court
