A rare letter written by Thomas Cromwell attempting to speed up Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves has emerged for sale. full story ![]()

Everybody knows that Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s first novel about the court of Henry VIII, as seen through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, was brilliant. Well, this is in the same class.
standard.co.uk (6 days ago)

Award-winning actor Mark Rylance will play Thomas Cromwell in the six-hour adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s best-selling novels that the court of Henry VIII.
dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 16 days ago)

Anne Boleyn. There are few famous people about whom we have imagined so much, yet know so little. She wasn't royalty, so her childhood wasn't chronicled. Her teenage years with "the French" inspired salacious rumor among her political enemies and have fed the imaginations of novelists, but the reality is that we know next to nothing about what she said and did at Francis I's...
huffingtonpost.com (4 days ago)

Famous faces from history including William Shakespeare, Henry VIII and Horatio Nelson have been given a modern makeover to see how they would look if they were alive today.
telegraph.co.uk (20 days ago)
In her new book, “The Creation of Anne Boleyn,” Susan Bordo seeks to dispel the “sedimented mythology” about Boleyn, the ill-fated second wife of Henry VIII.
nytimes.com (1 month and 6 days ago)

Scientists have stopped spraying the 500-year-old wreck of the Mary Rose with a protective was for the first time in nearly two decades, an historic milestone in the conservation of Henry VIII's Tudor warship. Here is a factfile on the ship's history.
telegraph.co.uk (22 days ago)

The ancient relief was discovered at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, where Henry VIII's last surviving wife was buried.
sky.com (2 months and 9 days ago)

The Tony-award winning actor is in talks with the BBC about starring as Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 16 days ago)

From Henry VIII to Lord Nelson, Queen Elizabeth I to Marie Antoinette and William Shakespeare, these five portraits imagine giants from history with a distinctly 21st-century twist.
dailymail.co.uk (20 days ago)

Hilary Mantel, the bestselling author, gave fans a tantalising insight into the plot of the concluding novel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy as she accepted a prestigious award last night.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 27 days ago)
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