Nancy Bileau’s novel doesn’t airbrush the venality and violence of Henry VIII’s court
A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
The copy of work on the theories of William of Ockham was found in a National Trust building
The king is suspiciously slim in BBC Two’s blockbuster Wolf Hall
Bishop Mark Davies says ‘one of the greatest Englishmen’ has been presented as ‘a scheming villain’
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall propagates the myth that Britain became great once it had ditched Catholicism
Fashions have changed meaning literature and the Church are no longer comfortable bedfellows
The twice-winner of the Man Booker Prize has found new riches in the otherwise exhausted seam of Tudor history
Wolf Hall reminds us that beheadings solve nothing
The final episode of Wolf Hall was uncomfortable to watch