By now pregnant with the Earl of Angus's child, Margaret Tudor fled to England. In October she gave birth to Margaret Douglas, the future Countess of Lennox and mother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, ...

A selection of portraits from 1485 to 1603, many of which are on display at the Gallery or at Montacute House, our regional partner in Somerset. Portraits below are listed in chronological order.

In an apparent breach of his official prohibition, the defrocked David Tudor also conducted an interment of ashes at a consecrated churchyard only a fortnight ago, on Dec 7. On Monday, the Most ...

There is a tower within the cathedral close in Carlisle, Cumbria, that hides a Tudor ceiling referred to as a "rare survival". It is made extraordinary by how well it is preserved - says the ...

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In smaller towns a single company of woodworkers might include joiners, carpenters, masons, turners and sawyers. This paper concentrates on the activities of the joiners in Tudor England. For this ...

It was a prohibition that stood for 1,000 years - until one particularly capricious monarch decided otherwise. In 1540, King Henry VIII changed the law to allow first-cousin marriage so he could ...