Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice Smith, the producer and audio editor is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff. All music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.

Henry VIII was brought up as a devout Catholic. In the early years of his reign he attended mass five times a day and his most trusted adviser was the head of the Catholic Church in England ...

With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation ...

Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...

Brush up on the Pole family, Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire & the history that shaped the events in Episode 1 as seen on ...

Henry VIII even commissioned a Bible in response, the Great Bible of 1539. When Mary I ascended to the throne of England, she restored the Roman Catholic Church (Henry VIII had split away from it ...

A far reaching consequence of the lengthy negotiations for his divorce from Katherine of Aragon led to his break with Rome, leading to the establishment of the Church of England. On 11th June 1509 he ...