Recent Posts

• 27 January – The fate of the Gunpowder Plotters and the death of Sir Francis Drake
• Was Thomas Boleyn on the jury at Anne Boleyn’s trial?
• 26 January – Justice Spelman and Anne Boleyn’s trial, and Mary I writes to Elizabeth
• 25 January – Bonfires, torches, bells ringing… and the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
• 24 January – Can jousting heal the problems between Englishmen and Spaniards? and Henry VIII’s Jousting Accident
• 23 January – Elizabeth I opens the Royal Exchange and the death of Ferdinand II
• 21 January – Henry Howard’s madding time and the Act of Attainder against Catherine Howard and Jane Boleyn
• 19 January – Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and Execution of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
• 18 January – Henry VII and Elizabeth of York get married and Henry VIII dresses up
• 16 January – Thomas Howard breaks his promise about Mary, Queen of Scots, and Thomas Seymour’s kidnap attempt
• 13 January – The Prince of Poets and Henry Howard is tried for treason
• 11 January – A colourful Lord of Misrule and the first recorded lottery
• 16 January – Thomas Howard breaks his promise about Mary, Queen of Scots and, Thomas Seymour, a kidnap attempt
• 10 January – A priest caught by a priestfinder and torturer, and the ends of Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham
• 9 January – A queen twice over, and Executions of Henry Pole and Henry Courtenay
• 8 January – Mary Shelton, Anne Boleyn’s cousin and lady, and Henry VIII celebrates news of Catherine of Aragon’s death