Howard Brenton's ambitious history play, Anne Boleyn, returning to The Globe after a successful run last summer, is a tribute to Henry VIII's second wife. But it also celebrates the King James Bible... more
As her book about poet Sir Thomas Wyatt is published, Nicola Shulman talks to David Sexton about modelling, marriage and being part of a media mafia... more
The play that destroyed the first Globe theatre when a stage cannon shot set fire to the thatched roof is being performed for the first time in the modern recreation of the venue... more
It's no fun being a small firm in the recession: customers down, business rates to pay, higher national insurance - and then there's the 500-year-old tax for keeping the local royal deer from running away... more
Young London writer Adam Foulds joins the shortlist for this year's £50,000 Man Booker with veteran South African writer JM Coetzee bidding for a prize hat-trick... more
From rock 'n' roll and graffiti art to Henry VIII and the workings of the human body, London's galleries and museums have something for everyone.... more
It held jousting tournaments for Henry VIII, doubled as a car park for senior civil servants and hosted the Great British beach volleyball team... more
The royal park at Greenwich will be ruined if Olympics organisers stage the 2012 equestrian competitions there, the historian David Starkey claims... more
Jonathan Rhys Meyers was pictured wearing external and internal shoe-lifts on his knee-high leather boots as he reprised his role as British monarch Henry VIII in The Tudors.... more
We continue with our quest to make your summer far-from dull with an A-Z guide of summer fun, so why not try your hand at making your own family movie or take part in a night-time bat safari.... more
Go back in time to a land of fairytale castles, battleships or Victorian drudgery. Daralyn Danns looks at the places that bring history and heritage alive.... more
Quite what Henry VIII would have made of it is anyone's guess. Arriving at the royal premiere of her film about the marriage-loving monarch in London last night, Scarlett Johansson showed off a somewhat unregal tattoo
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Pain and violence have rarely looked as seductive as in Raqib Shaw's strange and intricate paintings on show at Tate Britain, says Nick Hackworth.... more
The brilliant young German who became court painter to Henry VIII was a devout Catholic and could easily have lost his head. Dull conformity saved him from the axe, says Brian Sewell.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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