He created an independent Church of England of which he was the head. Henry needed to free himself from his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, who had not provided him with a male heir. However ...

Before the Reformation, most people in England were Catholic. Their lives centred around the ideas and beliefs of the Catholic Church. This meant that, for many people, Henry’s break with Rome ...

By far the best study of the secularization of not only England but Europe generally is Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation, in which he emphasizes that the ending of uniformity in ...

From 4 December 2024 to 26 February 2025, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Department for Energy Security and ...

When Mary I ascended to the throne of England, she restored the Roman Catholic Church (Henry VIII had split away from it to ...

We know King James I of England primarily through his name being attached to the King James Version of the Holy Bible, which ...

As the Protestant Reformation progressed in Wales and England under the Tudor dynasty, except during Mary's reign, Catholics began to face persecution. In Wales one poet's response was to label ...

The English Reformation took a different shape from that on the continent. Europe’s Reformation was catalysed by the theological ideas of thinkers such as Martin Luther and John Calvin.

Britain's King Charles III's planned state visit to the Vatican in early April will go ahead despite Pope Francis's ...

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The King and Queen are still planning to meet Pope Francis in the Vatican when they travel to Italy next month despite the ...