Why did the last monarch of the House of Tudor cake her face with heavy makeup? To cover up scars from smallpox, which she came down with in 1562 — just four years into her reign — and which ...

Between them the five Tudor kings and queens introduced huge changes ... England and poses a threat to Elizabeth. Mary is put under house arrest. Walsingham is convinced she is plotting against ...

Warwick’s decision to crown Edward as King left England with two kings - Edward IV and ... The red rose symbolises the House of Lancaster. When Henry Tudor, of the House of Lancaster, became ...

In 1913, during the height of the Suffragettes' militant campaign for women's suffrage, two women broke into a Birmingham school, armed with a bold plan to set it alight. The 15th century ...