30 January – Four Gunpowder Plotters come to sticky ends and Cooling Castle is besieged
On this day in history, 30th January 1606, Gunpowder plotters Everard Digby, Robert Wintour, John Grant and Thomas…
29 January – Queen Anne Boleyn miscarries and the burial of Catherine of Aragon
On this day in Tudor history, 29th January 1536, the same day that Catherine of Aragon was buried…
28 January – Elizabeth I, friend of the Ottoman Empire, the birth of Henry VII and the death of Henry VIII
On this day in Tudor history, 28th January 1598, diplomat Edward Barton died of dysentery on the island…
27 January – The fate of the Gunpowder Plotters and the death of Sir Francis Drake
On this day in history, 27th January 1606, in the reign of King James I, the eight surviving…
Was Thomas Boleyn on the jury at Anne Boleyn’s trial?
"How did Thomas Boleyn feel sitting in judgement on his children?" is a question that I was asked…
26 January – Justice Spelman and Anne Boleyn’s trial, and Mary I writes to Elizabeth
On this day in Tudor history, 26th January 1546, judge of assize and law reporter, Sir John Spelman,…
25 January – Bonfires, torches, bells ringing… and the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
25th January is the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul, an important day in Tudor times. It…