Marked Bosworth

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Tudors

Five Tudor monarchs ruled England from Bosworth to the death of Elizabeth I. In those years England broke with Rome, built a navy, beat the Spanish Armada and began to look across the oceans.

Date
1485 to 1603IX · Oceans crossed
Place
Bosworth · Hampton Court · The Tower of London · GreenwichEurope
Laid out as
A dynastyA line of rulers, one after another, and what each reign changed.
Lessons
7 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IBosworth
  2. IIHenry VIII and his wives
  3. IIIThe dissolution of the monasteries
  4. IVEdward, Jane and Mary
  5. VElizabeth I
  6. VIThe Armada
  7. VIIBlack Tudors

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Henry VII
  • Henry VIII
  • Edward VI
  • Mary I
  • Elizabeth I
  • John Blanke

Objects

  • The Mary Rose
  • The Armada portrait
  • The Westminster Tournament Roll

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1485 to 1603. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?