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The Elizabethan era: a golden age?
Was the Elizabethan period really a 'golden era' of English history?
Eleanor of Provence
A powerful and political Queen
The Tower of London and the Second World War
Life at the Tower of London during the Second World War
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Who was the real Guy Fawkes, the man behind the mask?
Arbella Stuart
From contender for the throne to prisoner in the Tower of London
The story of Hillsborough Castle and Gardens
‘The Grandest House in County Down’
Mo Mowlam
A unique Northern Ireland Secretary and Hillsborough Castle resident
Henry VI
Intelligent and generous, he lived in his father's shadow and was killed for his throne
The Field of Cloth of Gold
Henry VIII's historic meeting with his great rival François I in 1520 was a defining point in his reign