Sumptuary laws limited many of the clothing items that the lower and middle classes could wear. Politics often played an ...

After 20 years at Frieze, Victoria Siddall has become the first woman to take the helm at the National Portrait Gallery. And there’s change afoot, finds Charlotte Metcalf Conversations At Scarfes Bar: ...

Seven Secret Histories," the author and podcaster Carol Woolton takes a close look at jewelry through the ages, and how ...

A portrait of the "mastermind" behind the fall of Anne Boleyn is set to be unveiled at the former queen’s childhood home. Thomas Cromwell, the son of a blacksmith, worked his way up to become ...

For reasons that I have never worked out, Henry VIII and his six wives dominate the room, with their portraits ... to the NPG, Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens will ‘chronicle the ...

"And now a lot of historians are doing fantastic work, exploring those stories and looking at those trials of Anne Boleyn and ... by an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London ...

The earliest on-screen depiction of Henry and his wives also indulges in gendered stereotypes: Henry's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves ... an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London ...

Anne Boleyn’s famous portrait by an uknown ... Installation view of Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens at the National Portrait Gallery, London, featuring Henry VIII’s armor ...

The childhood home of Anne Boleyn has been restored to its former ... books and writing materials. A portrait of Henry VIII hangs on the wall. The researchers who worked on the refurnishing ...

Funny, then, to come face to face with it once more in the National Portrait Gallery’s Six Lives ... forever just beyond our reach. The portrait of Anne of Cleves is particularly moving ...

Anne Boleyn, “Reformer” (her motto “The Most ... Mary Tudor but you don’t get a sniff of that. What you do get are portraits of Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell, who both detested her ...