West Horsley Place hosts a Tudor festival celebrating Henry VIII with jousting, dances, and historical feasts on September 13 ...

Sinister conversations in hushed tones behind gold-plated Gothic columns faintly illumined by flickering torchlight.

Originally a way to cover men’s poles in 15th and 16th century Europe, men wore codpieces beneath their doublets with no other underwear, before the ingenious sartorial invention became a piece of ...

Compelling play set in rural Essex follows three women whose lives are affected by misogyny surrounding the Queen ...

Three years ago, when memories of the final series of HBO’s Game of Thrones were still fresh, Joanne Paul published The House ...

From strange job titles that used to exist in the royal palaces to unique positions that still exist today, only the royals ...

Ava Pickett’s award-winning début play, 1536, is a foul-mouthed, furious, frenetically funny ride through the lives of three ...

In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded for alleged adultery. In 1649, England was declared a republic by Parliament following the execution of King Charles I.

In 1935, Pope Pius XI canonized Sir Thomas More and Cardinal John Fisher as saints of the Catholic Church. English King Henry ...

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded at the Tower of London after being convicted of adultery.

English King Henry VIII ordered the two men executed in 1535 for refusing to accept him as head of the Church of England. In 1964, it was revealed that U.S. diplomats had found at least 40 secret ...

The inauguration mass for the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church took place in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, May 18 ...