The Tudors For Dummies
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The Tudors carried out more political executions than you'll find listed here, but these deaths represent significant markers in the development of the respective monarch’s sense of identity. The message? Don’t mess with the Tudors!

  • 1499: Earl of Warwick and Perkin Warbeck

  • 1510: Edmund Dudley and Sir Richard Empson

  • 1521: Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham

  • 1535: John Fisher and Sir Thomas More

  • 1536: Anne Boleyn

  • 1538: Cardinal Pole’s family

  • 1540: Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex

  • 1542: Catherine Howard

  • 1552: Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset

  • 1553: John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland

  • 1554: Jane Grey

  • 1556: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

  • 1581: Edmund Campion, Jesuit missionary

  • 1587: Mary Queen of Scots

  • 1601: Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex

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Professor David Loades is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wales and has taught history at universities including St Andrews and Durham. He has written many books on the Tudor period and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Mei Trow is a history tutor, lecturer and author who has written numerous historical books on topics ranging from Jack the Ripper to Boudicca. His recent TV work includes Ancient Discoveries and Spartacus for The History Channel.

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