It’s scoundrel time, Roman Catholic division. As Cardinal Wolsey, steely puppet-master of the young King Henry VIII, Roderick Peeples has a way of crossing the Illinois Shakespeare Festival outdoor ...

Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, the Most Reverend Father in God, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England, was, next to King Henry VIII, the most powerful man in the realm. But he was also still the ...

Yesterday, London’s Victoria & Albert Museum completed a £2.5 million ($3.8 million) national campaign to purchase the Wolsey Angels, four 16th-century statues by Benedetto da Rovezzano. An adviser to ...

Descendants of 31 of the people involved in the violent protests against the closure of a monastery 500 years ago are being sought by English Heritage Today, Wednesday 4 June, marks the 500th ...

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. . . This work is one of a series of brilliant pieces which have emanated from the hands of Lessing, Camphausen, Hildebrandt, Leutze, Pluddman, Voldhart, Schrader, &c., &c. It is worthy its ...