Curated category
Tudor historians
- George W. BernardGeorge William Bernard built one of his most debated arguments on a single poem. Lancelot de Carles wrote the verse, and Bernard used it to argue that Anne…
- Joanna DennyJoanna Denny carried a remarkable piece of Tudor history in her own family name. A descendant of Sir Anthony Denny, one of Henry VIII's most trusted…
- Jack ScarisbrickJack Scarisbrick spent nearly a century thinking about how history gets told, and who gets to tell it. Born John Joseph Scarisbrick on the 6th of October…
- Miranda KaufmannMiranda Kaufmann was born in 1982 to a Jewish family in London. She grew up surrounded by museums, galleries, and theatres that shaped her early perspective…
- Retha WarnickeRetha Warnicke believes that Anne Boleyn was not born in 1501, as most historians long assumed, but in the summer of 1507.
- Eric IvesEric William Ives was born on the 12th of July 1931 in Romford, Essex, into a Plymouth Brethren family. He died on the 25th of September 2012, leaving behind…
- Geoffrey EltonGeoffrey Elton arrived in Britain in February 1939 as a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia, a teenage boy named Gottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg.
- Alison WeirAlison Weir was fourteen years old when a paperback novel about Catherine of Aragon changed the course of her life. She describes the book, Lozania Prole's…
- Maria DowlingMaria Dowling was born in 1955 and spent her career asking a question that most people never think to ask: what did it mean to be educated at the English…
- John Guy (historian)John Alexander Guy was born on the 16th of January 1949 in Warragul, Victoria, Australia, and went on to become one of Britain's most celebrated historians…