The entertainment in Tudor England
Apart from eating and drinking (and smoking), the Tudors were enthusiastic merrymakers: they liked to entertain and to be entertained....
20/05/2015
Tudors
London homes in Shakespeare’s time
Thanks to decades of peace, English houses are no longer made for defence but for comfort. The newly rich may...
09/12/2013
Shop till you drop in Tudor’s time
Elizabethans witnessed many improvements in daily life. One of those is the stockings knitting machine invented in 1589 by William...
17/08/2013
Tudors at play
Tudor England worked hard and played hard: “Sometimes their necks are broken, sometimes their backs, sometimes their legs, sometimes their...
10/04/2012
Wives and mothers in Tudor age
A Tudor marriage was usually a carefully orchestrated affair, be it for monarch or commoner – a business arrangement to...
01/12/2011
Public transport under Tudors and Stuarts
The public transport at the beginning of 17th century was almost non-existent. If you wanted to risk your life, you...
29/08/2011
Elizabethan England
Many must have predicted a bleak future for England when the 22 year old princess Elizabeth succeeded her half sister...
15/05/2011