The return of "Wolf Hall," based on Hilary Mantel's novel, captures Thomas Cromwell's final years and the complexities of ...

Treason, tyranny, and terror are fabled words of King Henry VIII, one of history’s most controversial autocrats and ...

Rome’s interests in Egypt, Carthage, and Sicily were trade-driven: Even though Rome was surrounded by plantations, it was an ...

Season 2 adapts the third and final novel that also gives the sequel series its name, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.

Thomas Wolsey's ascendancy was ... who acted like a nurse, was more harmonious and she would go on to outlive him. Henry VIII died on 28 January 1547 and was succeeded by his son, Edward VI.

Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance reprise their roles as Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell in this Wolf Hall sequel. Learn why critics are raving. #WolfHallPBS:The Mirror and the Light ...

The Augustinian Priory was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and destroyed on the orders of Henry VIII during the Reformation – the order ...

Last week, with the run up to the Oscars, I deviated somewhat from past practices by providing a list of, not 10 good legal movies, but 10 terrible ones. (Well, 9 terrible movies plus one ...

Located in the heart of Cambridgeshire, Ramsey Abbey House — a Grade 1 listed building with a rich history including once ...

Malhuret’s sweeping jeremiad provides a useful framework because it locates the source of the problem squarely as stemming from the mad emperor (the Nero-like Trump) with merely a secondary, ...

Henry VIII ruled England over 500 years ago, and yet there is an almost obsessive fascination with the period of his reign ...

Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, as well as the various women lined up to become the wives of the king, such as Anne of Cleves. He was a contributor to the history of book design as well ...