Sutton Coldfield will soon celebrate 500 years of being a Royal town and plans are afoot to mark the occasion - with the ...

Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire is one of the only English religious houses with a history lasting from the 600s to the ...

One beautiful English abbey is hiding a rather dark history within its walls, and was once home to a murderous monk.

Read our review of historical drama *1536*, starring Tanya Reynolds, Siena Kelly and Liv Hill, now in performances at the ...

King Henry VIII is synonymous with his six wives and his break from the Catholic Church, but he also had a number of ...

Sumptuary laws limited many of the clothing items that the lower and middle classes could wear. Politics often played an ...

Our fascination with Henry VIII’s second wife has lasted for 500 years. Here’s the truth about the woman who broke all the ...

In 1641, with the impending Civil War, The Council of the North was abolished, and the buildings were occupied by a series of military governors owing allegiance to the king, York being a royalist ...

Two men had a significant impact on Kirkstall Abbey’s existence. Henry the VIII ordered its dissolution in 1539. Thomas North ...

The Papacy has also figured in numerous fictional films, including crime dramas (The Godfather Part III, 1990), thrillers (Angels & Demons, 2009), horrors (The Pope’s Exorcist, 2023) and numerous ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Archaeologists working on the Henry Street Bridge project have identified 674 grave shafts in an area once part of the historic Greenlawn Cemetery, according to a new ...