Under These Restless Skies

On May 15, 1536, Anne Boleyn and her brother, George , were convicted of adultery and incest and sentenced to death. To modern eyes, wha...

So we’ll live, a nd pray, and sing,  and tell old tales,  and laugh a t gilded butterflies,  and hear poor rogues t alk of court news,  ...

Karen Lindsey, author of Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII  puts forth a very interestin...

"Childhood," as we think of it, is a relatively new concept, invented in the Victorian era. The Victorians began to view childho...

The painting to the right is a very interesting artifact of the Tudor era. According to the Latin inscription in the upper right corner, i...

A good marriage during the Tudor era was one which brought prosperity to the family of the bride and groom. For the groom, it might be a g...