Anne second queen of Henry VIII

She belonged to the London trading class, which was rising rapidly in wealth and influence. Life at this date was hazardous, however. Hers was shaped by her parents' belief in the new reformed religion, and...

The family of Thomas More were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again...

FNBA 's father, Thomas Manners , first Earl of Rutland, was one of the peers who tried Anne Boleyn for treason. He went on to hold various distinguished official positions. He died on 20 September...

RH 's father, William Lok or Locke (1480-1550), had been married before and he was twice more married after the death of his second wife, Katherine (Cook)—who bore him nine children—and whose protestant faith he...

Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn , a country gentleman's daughter, attracted the king during his first marriage by her beauty and personality. Her few surviving letters indicate high intelligence and language skills. She was executed on...

The Athenæum was quite mocking about the quality of the history, finding it deficient in the critical evaluation and referencing of sources, and claiming to have derived entertainment but not instruction from the first volume...

The Seduction of Anne Boleyn, another historical play by CL , was first presented at Southampton's Nuffield Theatre .

HM gave a lecture at the British Museum in a series organized by the London Review of Books, as Undressing Anne Boleyn (printed in the same journal on 21 February as Royal Bodies).

Thomas More 's opposition to Henry VIII 's projected marriage to Anne Boleyn was unshakable. On 17 April 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a political offender, having refused on 12...

Claire Luckham's career as a playwright was launched in 1976, when the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment selected Scum (a play on which she and her husband collaborated) to open their first season. Her plays...

She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of Queen Caroline's trial, by the publishers T. and J. Allman . Its frontispiece shows Caroline flanked by portraits of Queen Elizabeth , but...

ET 's nephew George Tollet published, with her name, a new, enlarged edition of her work: Poems on Several Occasions. With Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII . An Epistle.

On 12 May 2012HM published in The Guardian an article about Anne Boleyn .

As a child Susan Grosvenor lived with her parents and sister at 30 Upper Grosvenor Street—but only in winter, for summers were spent with the extended family at her grandparents' country estate, Moor Park...

This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...