A Letter From Cromwell To Henry VIII

From the Telegraph in June 2012: A rare letter written by Thomas Cromwell attempting to speed up Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleve...

Collegiate Foundress: Dervorguilla of Galloway

From BBC News : An Oxford University college may have taken its name from a medieval lord, but it was under the watchful eye of his widow th...

The Daylight Gate

From the Guardian : Pendle:  a place synonymous with witches  and Britain's most notorious diabolism trials. The candle-passing parlour ...

Lady Anne's Great Books of Record

From Science Daily : A three-year study into a set of manuscripts compiled and written by one of Britain's earliest feminist figures has...

Walter Raleigh - Pirate Who Bewitched Elizabeth

From the Mail Online : You could not be alive in Elizabethan England and not feel that it was a young country, full of vigour and possessin...

The Wool Trade in England

From the 12th to 18th Century, wool was the most important item in English trade. In the Middle Ages, the best English wool was the most pri...

BBC Series - Wolf Hall

From the Guardian : The BBC and HBO are developing a TV drama mini-series adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Man Booker prize-winning histori...

Monastic Orders in Medieval England

Here is a short list of the various Monastic Orders that were to be found in Medieval England. Benedictines: The Black Monks founded by St. ...

Lady Anne Clifford

From The Telegraph : Lady Anne Clifford was a patron of the arts who should have inherited an estate including five great castles across the...