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The source material about a 17th century plot to steal the Crown Jewels is golden. This show is not

Thomas Cromwell’s Book of Hours was “thought to be a lost relic of Henry VIII’s court”, said The Times, but “it transpires that it’s been hiding in plain sight for 363 years”. The book, which was immortalised in one of the most famous portraits from Tudor England, has been sitting…

Letters: Lucie Bea Dutton on the messages of encouragement the writer gave her, and another author on the blurb quotation she provided for a book

This rich and riotous novel, following the search for two of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant, is also an important book for our own historical moment

The Finance Minister was likened to the British tyrant who plundered and pillaged his way across the country in the 17th century