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Britain: Tudors

Time Traveller's Guide to Tudor
England
Everything the adventurous traveller needs to journey to the time of Henry VIII, Bloody Mary and the Virgin Queen.

The monarchs we never had
The death of the heir to the throne has had important consequences throughout British history – sometimes immediately, sometimes obvious only in retrospect.

• The British Slave Trade: A chronology
  From the first British slave trader Sir John Hawkins to the Slavery Abolition Act and US Emancipation Proclamation.
• Elizabeth: Apprenticeship
  An extract from Dr David Starkey's biography of the young Elizabeth.
• Elizabeth's Pirates
  How the Virgin Queen turned to her privateers to raise money and wage war.
• Elizabeth's Pirates: Interviews
  Interviews with historians Bruce Lenman, Mark Nicholls and Mia J Rodriguez-Salgado.
• Elizabeth I
  The dilemmas involved in portraying such an extraordinary historical figure.
• Henry VIII
  Henry's real achievement was the creation of an England that, in terms of kingship and religion, endured for centuries after his death.
• London: The greatest city
  Edited transcript of the Channel 4 documentary on the history of Britain's capital, together with many of the computer reconstructions that appeared in it.
• Masters of Darkness: John Dee
  Queen Elizabeth's astrologer, Dee caused uproar in 16th-century Europe with his 'angelic conversations', and inspired the character of Prospero in Shakespeare's Tempest.
• The monarchs we never had
  The death of the heir to the throne has had important consequences throughout British history – sometimes immediately, sometimes obvious only in retrospect.
• Monarchy
  Dynamic timeline that illuminates the lives of the men and women who sat on the English/British throne and the powerful individuals who supported and sometimes fought them.
• Origination
  Brings together the wealth of web resources that record and celebrate the contributions of immigrant cultures to British history.
• Perkin Warbeck: The great pretender
  What is known about the mysterious young man who claimed to be one of the ‘princes in the Tower’, having escaped to Europe and gone into hiding, only to re-emerge in 1491 as a serious thorn in Henry VII’s side?
• The Science of Secrecy: The Babington plot
  How the life of Mary Queen of Scots hung on the strength of a substitution cipher.
• The Scots Detective
  This website challenges historical accounts of the Scottish wars of independence, the Reformation, the Act of Union, Scottish exile and the Irish in Scotland (Channel 4 Learning).
• The Search for the Northwest Passage
  From the 15th century, European mariners sought to find a seaway through the ice-bound Arctic to the Orient. This website examines attempts including the fatal Franklin expedition and Amundsen’s success.
• Six Wives of Henry VIII
  The key events and players in the life of each wife, plus a comparison of women then and now.
• The Slave Trade and the Industrial Revolution
  How the slave trade helped Britain become the 'workshop of the world' while reinforcing a racist view of Africans.
• The Spell Binder
  Discover the secrets of Elizabethan science and magic.
• The Tower
  Historical nuggets from some of the curators of the Tower of London.
• The Worst Jobs in History: Tudor jobs
  The ordinary citizen, rather than the royal court, contributes most to national success, not least by filling some of the least desirable job vacancies in history.

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