Yet, no other period in English history is as associated with women in the popular consciousness as the Tudor age, from the six unfortunate wives of Henry VIII to the ruling queens “Bloody Mary ...

Three decades earlier, all these women had been in England, at the Tudor court of Henry VII. The year then was 1501, and each had worked as an attendant on Catherine of Aragon. They dressed her ...

Nicola Clark, who lectures in late medieval and early modern history, is the author of The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens. As she argues, these confidantes ...

Like many women artists of centuries past ... 20th-century experts studying the Tudor period tended to focus on painters whose “attributions [were] less tenuous”: namely, Holbein, known ...