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.

