Kent is home to some fantastic castles, from Tudor forts to medieval buildings, and there’s no shortage of royal history in ...

As the final part of Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" trilogy hits our TV screens, "I predict a sudden revival of the Tudor aesthetic", said historian Suzannah Lipscomb in The Telegraph. The impressive ...

For those of us without a helicopter, the English Heritage-owned Tudor artillery castle is open to visitors on the ground. Henry VIII — who gave the orders for the castle's construction — can ...

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So here goes: Thornbury Castle and I have history. The old house I grew up in was linked to the Tudor castle by a secret underground passage. Despite years of scraping and prodding we never found it.