How to upstage a queen Jill Armitage's previous book was about Arbella Stuart, a possible claimant to the throne of England when Eliza...

The "other" Mary Tudor No, not England's first  Queen Regnant but Henry the Eighth's favourite sister. If this new bio...

I am sadly stepping down from The History Girls at the end of 2017 and have posted something special for my last blog: an unpublished short ...

From Cleeve Hill in the Cotswolds you can look down and see Sudeley Castle, close to the small town of Winchcombe. Sudeley has been res...

Lady Mary Grey Lady Mary Grey, youngest sister of the tragic Lady Jane was described by a contemporary ambassador as 'small, crookba...

The mid-sixteenth century saw the rise of a new art form: the portrait miniature. Designed to be hidden, rather than displayed in public, mi...