I am absolutely obsessed with anything Tudor and further back and have set myself to learning as much as possible about this subject. I have...

Did Prince Arthur go to Calais in 1498? I was reading the Spanish state calendar papers and came across a section.. "Henry said that ...

Hello all! I wanted to post a note over here that there is a post on the News blog with a Q&A that Foose did with PhDHistorian about h...

The large size of the Tudor court, including servants, made food supply a constant problem and required kings to be almost nomadic for parts...

My grandmother was born Alice Mary Pole in 1876(?). We were always told we were descendants from the de la Poles! My grandmother was born in...

Can anyone recommend a book on crime in 16th century England and Wales - is there an area which has been well-explored?

Can anyone recommend a good article or book on working class 16th-century English and Welsh people? Has much research been done in this area...

After reading some books about the tudor times, I came to the obvious conclusion that the overwhelming majority of the english people lived ...

I'm currently in the process of writing a story a fanfiction if you will, what if Prince Arthur lived and the impacts it would create du...

Does anyone know more about the history behind the bad blood between Thomas Wolsey and the (3rd) Duke of Norfolk and Thomas Boleyn? I can un...

I remember reading that Wolsey didn't seriously want to be Pope, that he had it too good in England and was aware that his career would ...

I would like help or information with the nature of familial interment in chest or table tombs, with particular reference to the the Dacre t...

a question about lower gentry and dowries. Hi,just a follow up question from the elizabeth seymour and sir anthony Ueghtard question I ask...

Hi I have a new business Iam trying to grow selling goose fat face cream, sounds wierd but it does actually work! Iam looking for info for ...

Hiya! I am doing research for a book,looking at elizabeths marriage to sir anthony and looking at birthdates.it seemed since she was born i...

Hi; was wondering what lands and manors were held by Arthur and Henry when they were the Princes of Wales? I'm assuming the land grants ...

Are there any records anywhere that talk about how Mary, Queen of Scots felt about her son James? I've read/seen information that she re...

I am reading the book "The six wives of Henry the VIII" by Alison Weir, and in a chapter she mentions that in court there were car...

What sort of books circulated around the Tudor court? What did the likes of Anne Boleyn read for fun?

This question is slightly out of the preferred date range but . . . I am giving a lecture on Richard III in a couple months and am having ...

Posies for medicinal purposes permitted in Lent? I'm trying to describe a scene in a sickroom in 1545, and had understood that posies ...

Who was the heir of Henry VII the time between the Battle of Bosworth Field and Arthur's birth?

Apologies to anyone who has tried to reach the news blog (tudorhistory.org/blog) today and got a database connection error. I've been tr...

Hi, Here's another correspondence question: does anyone know whether a letter would be more likely to be rolled up like a scroll or fo...

Was there any special vessel or container for carrying a message from the household of one nobleman to another? When a messenger was on hors...