The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics

Charlotte Bolland is Senior Curator, Research and 16th Century Collections at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She has contributed to The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt (2017), The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered (2014) and Elizabeth I and Her People (2013). Her most recent publication on the Tudors was Tudor and Jacobean Portraits (2019).

Foreword
Introduction: The Tudors by Charlotte Bolland
A New Dynasty
Insights into John Blanke¿s image from The John Blanke Project by Michael I. Ohajuru
The King¿s Court
Walter Hungerford and the 1533 Buggery Act by Kate O¿Donoghue
The Reformation in England
Reginald Pole, Catholic Reform and Religious Reconciliation by Frederick E. Smith
Queenship
'We Princes Who Be Women¿: Catherine de¿ Medici in France by Susan Doran
Holding the Throne
Anthony Babington and the Memorialisation of a Catholic Conspiracy by Charlotte Bolland
Piracy, Privateering and Trade
Diego, Drake and Piracy in Panama by Cassander Smith
The Spanish and English Armadas
`Follow Me Upon Your Honour!¿: María Pita and the Siege of A Coruña by Monserrat Pis Marcos
Empire
Fighting for Survival: Gráinne O Malley as Tudor Friend and Foe by Gillian Kenny
Translation
The Literary Legacy of Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke by Catharine MacLeod
Timeline
Notes and Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits