and was home to a community of monks for over 400 years before it was stripped of its wealth and closed by Henry VIII. For the communities that relied upon the monasteries, their loss was devastating.

The coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon took place on Sunday 24th June 1509. The ceremony is illustrated in the mortuary roll of Abbot Islip dated 1532 in the Abbey's archives. The day ...

A dig at a 16th Century blockhouse commissioned by Henry VIII for the city of Hull's defences has uncovered the original floor levels from the 1540s. Ken Steedman, of Humber Field Archaeology (HFA ...

A previously unseen, long-lost document has revealed "vital" detail about the destruction of the monasteries under Henry VIII. Furness Abbey in Cumbria was the first of England's "greater ...