I just wanted to ask a few questions: 1)How did people view witches in Elizabethan/Stuart England? 2)Did anyone really practice witchcra...

Hi Lara and everyone Did any one else catch the UK channel 5 programme last night on Elizabeth and Dudley and who killed his wife? I must ...

Westminster Abbey...can 'regular folk' be married there? I can't see the entire structure being closed to the public unless a Ro...

what i would really like is as much information on henry the viii children who were born out of wedlock. i would like the information on...

A question regarding names. Have often wondered- why did Mary & Charles Brandon decided to name their daughters Frances and Eleanor? The...

Can you believe it? This blog is five years old today! Thanks to everyone, once again, for all of the interesting questions and helpful an...

Does anyone have anymore details on Humphrey/Humffrey Barroll/Barrell who is recorded as page to Queen Elizabeth 1 at his marriage at St. Mi...

When there was a murder in Henry VIII's time, who investigated it: the coroner, the justice of the peace or the constable? How did these...

Just started reading Garrett Mattingly book on Catherine of Aragon and I came across a description of Henry VII (on page 29) anyway Mattingl...

Can anybody tell me if court dwarves were born, or 'produced'. I seem to recall hearing at a lecture that there used to be a village...

Are Margaret Plantagenet and Margaret Tylle the same person,if notwhy is she listed as a child if Elizabeth of York and Henry 7th-

How many Heretics were killed during Henry VIII's reign?? I'm currently writing a paper on Mary I and i wanted numbers for how man...

Does anyone know if there was a place people traveled to when suffering from consumption (tuberculosis)? I know that in later years it becam...

Does anyone know why the national portrait gallery has taken the lady jayne portrait off display? It seems such a shame that all that money ...

Hello I do have a feeling that these questions have already been answered, however the link that answers my question isn't available a...

Have we any detailed reports of Mary Tudor and Philip's wedding ceremony?

Is there anyone (besides Henry himself) who was present at all or most of Henry VIII's six wedding ceremonies? This would imply there wa...

I stumbled across a painting of The Wedding of Cana by Flemish artist David Gerard and was struck by the resemblance of the bride in the pai...

I was watching a documentary on Jane Austin last night. When Jane was a little girl, she wrote a satirical history booked entitled "The...

Justin Pollard, writing in this month’s BBC History Magazine, says that Oliver Cromwell’s ancestor Morgan ap Williams “was the son of Joan T...

Was Thomas More at the coronation of Catherine of Aragon?

Autobiographies - any for Tudor England? Not contemporary puff piece biogs, but personal accounts with insight and observation, written by...

A few questions regarding the Boleyns. Did George actually have affairs with any men? Are there any oil paintings of George Boleyn, and Ma...

Deathbed quote by Elizabeth I - reliable? "I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland for they have left me nothing bu...

Does Westhorpe Hall, where Mary Rose Tudor and the Duke of Suffolk lived, still exist?