Thomas Boleyn: The Man, The Myths, The Truth
Thomas Boleyn has long been painted as a ruthless social climber who exploited his daughters for power and wealth. But does history support this image, or have we been misled by fiction? On the anni...
11 Mar 20256min
The Medici Pope Who Ignited the Reformation
On March 11, 1513, Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici became Pope Leo X, a ruler who would shape the Renaissance papacy with grandeur, patronage, and controversy. A lover of art and luxury, Leo transforme...
10 Mar 20254min
The Tudor Survivor Who Bent Like Willow
William Paulet and how he served FOUR monarchs & kept his head In Tudor England, where one wrong move could mean the Tower, how did one man manage to serve four monarchs and die peacefully in his 90s?...
9 Mar 20256min
What If Catherine of Aragon Had Gone to a Nunnery?
What if Catherine of Aragon had stepped aside and entered a nunnery? Could it have saved her daughter Mary’s legitimacy? Would Anne Boleyn have had a son? And most importantly—would England have remai...
8 Mar 20257min
Did Elizabeth I Poison Herself? The Truth About Tudor Makeup!
Did Elizabeth I really poison herself with lead makeup? It’s a Tudor myth! While Venetian ceruse—white lead makeup—did exist, there’s no real evidence the Queen actually used it. So where did this gho...
7 Mar 20255min
Treason, Faith & Betrayal
Germain Gardiner and the Prebendaries' Plot In the 1540s, England was a nation in religious turmoil, and those who resisted Henry VIII’s supremacy over the church risked everything. I uncover the ...
6 Mar 20256min
Henry VIII’s Loyal but Ruthless Servant
On 6th March 1547, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton and former Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII, suffered a dramatic fall from power, losing the Great Seal of his Lord Chancellorship. But was ...
5 Mar 20255min
The Man Who Gave Us the × Symbol
Imagine a world without the × symbol for multiplication, sin and cos in trigonometry, or even the slide rule—a tool that shaped centuries of science and engineering. Meet William Oughtred, the Tudor-e...
4 Mar 20253min
