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St. Thomas More (1478–1535) served as Lord Chancellor of England under King Henry VIII. A renowned scholar and author of ...
Margaret Douglas was a formidable figure in Tudor history. A cousin of Queen Elizabeth I, her position in Tudor politics was ...
The Church of England is weighing plans to exhume and enshrine the head of St. Thomas More , the patron saint of statesmen and politicians, in time for the 500th anniversary of his 1535 martyrdom.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the remains of up to 50 people in the Tower of London. Historians believe that many of bodies ...
The biggest excavation in 40 years at the Tower of London has uncovered the castle was hit by the plague. Dozens of bodies, ...
Elizabeth I is the only English queen never to have married. The iconic Tudor monarch's last visit to Kenilworth Castle 450 ...
Sir Thomas More was beheaded at Tower Hill in 1535 after he refused to acknowledge the monarch as head of the church ...
Henry VIII’s lord chancellor was martyred in 1935, meaning his remains are considered a holy relic in Catholicism ...
Permission is being sought to exhume Thomas More’s head from a Kent vault, 500 years after it was put on a pike on London Bridge.
An English church wants to exhume and preserve the remains of a martyr whose head was lopped off and speared on a London ...
General ticket sales for Horrible Histories - The Concert will be available from 9am BST on July 9 2025 through both ...