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August 28, 2021

Alison Weir reviews Sarah Gristwood's new exploration of courtly love in the Tudor age: "The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty"

Never forget the bloody horrors of the English Reformation

October 26, 2017

Amid celebrations of the Reformation's 500th anniversary, we should remember the mass persecutions of 16thC England

Elizabeth I’s Muslim ties ‘held off a Catholic invasion’, says a New York Times piece. It’s a myth

September 23, 2016

Sixteenth-century England did have links with the Ottoman Empire. But let's not overstate their importance

The martyr who haunted Elizabeth I

March 03, 2016

Review: Edmund Campion by Gerard Kilroy, Ashgate, £80

Could a relic of the Blessed Virgin be buried in America’s first settlement?

July 30, 2015

A reliquary found in Jamestown, Virginia, gives a Catholic foundation to a country so often thought of as Protestant

Forget her bloody reputation, Mary I was loved in her lifetime

October 31, 2013

Mary was a popular queen from whom Elizabeth I learned much

Natalie Portman is right about Hollywood misogyny, and it’s a trend that’s endured through the ages

October 01, 2013

Assigning powerful women masculine qualities to negate their femininity was commonplace in the Tudor period

Getting excommunicated is much harder than you think

July 12, 2013

The Church only ever uses the penalty as a last resort - a shock tactic to bring people back to God