HISTORY OF THE TUDORS IN 100 OBJECTS

The world of the Tudors was one in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious virtue and cultural expansion. This book sheds new light on the Tudor period through objects such as a silvergilt board badge discarded at Bosworth Field, a signet ring that may have belonged to Shakespeare, the Halifax gibbet on which some 100 people were executed, a prosthetic arm and the first flushing toilet. The whole vivid panorama of Tudor life is laid bare in this thought-provoking and frequently myth-shattering narrative.