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Links to pages all about the Tudor period:

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Culture & Entertainment

Marlowe Stabbed To Death

Jester Japes For Last Time

Queen Changes Mind On Town Visit

It's A Right Royal Sound

King Uses Black Musician

Henry VIII Sees Red After Holbein Portrait Leads To Ugly Marriage

Book Closed On Printer

Queen Opens First 'Shopping Centre'

Will Hits The Spot Again

Lion Slays Passer-By

Throwing At Cocks - The Poor Man's Bear Baiting - Comes Under Fire

Mystic Was Dead Right

University Of Life Better Than School

Will's Theatre Welcomed

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Parents Are Delighted As North East Gets Fifth Grammar School

Everyday Life

Lifeline For Poor Families

Quick-Knit Hit For Reverend

Sign Of Love For Deaf And Dumb Groom

Ear! I'm Not Doing That!

Farmer Lists All He Owns

Wearing A Paper Hat Is The Only Punishment

Queen Beats Smallpox

Man Gets Caught With Trousers Down

Plague Hits North East

First Witch Sentenced

Hanging Reintroduced For The Wandering Poor Who Refuse To Work

Hardwick In Queen Trouble

Milk And Beer Can't Save Town From Fire

More Big Homes Planned

Rent Too High For Farmer

Queen Mary Plea Fails To Save Murdering Catholic Lord From Noose

Exploration

Amazing New Land Found

Explorer Hugh Found In Ice

British Spice Import Company Founded

'El Draque' - Dead at 56

Tobacco Can Cure All Ills

Roanoke Mystery Remains Unsolved As No Trace Of Colonists Found

Mermaid Claim Is Denied

Lighthouse Group Gets Royal Charter

Cabot's Voyage Success

'Red Indians' Discovered

King Henry Won't Miss The Boat Next Time After Columbus Success

Maggots For Dinner, Sailor?

Newcastle Thrives On 'Black Diamonds'

Science Aids Sailors

Oak Trees Fall For Fleet

Global Explorer's Journey And Death Revealed By Sailor's Diary

Henry and Family

Will The King Marry Again?

A Stomach Fit For A King

Queen Elizabeth - The Golden Age

Rhyme For Wives' Fate

King's Second Wife Beheaded

More than 300 Executed By King Henry VIII In Last Eight Years

Queen Says 'Non' To Duke

Long Live King Edward - Aged Nine

Greensleeves A Big Hit

Arthur's Royal Wedding Day

'Clever, Kind' Katherine Parr, Henry's Sixth And Final Wife, Dies

Nine-Day Queen Is Dead

French Defeat Is Latest Blow for Mary

King and Kat Wed Today

Henry To Wed Bro's Widow

King Forces Anne Boleyn To Leave Northumberland-Heir Boyfriend

Religion

Execution For Sir Thomas

'Broken Man' Wolsey Dies

Notts Preacher Faked Possession Cure

Book Tells Anne's Story

Anti-Pope Movement

Leaders Of Lincolnshire Rebellion Executed Along With Their Men

Ox Ends Apostle's Tale

Catholic Anti-Liz Traitors Executed

Bible Is Now In English

Pope Honours Henry VIII

Ding-Dong, Ding-Dong - Kings And Queens Ring Religious Changes

Queen Mary Not Missed?

Queen Will Not Return To The Tower

Durham Cathedral Saved

Preacher In Trouble

Henry VIII Abandons Pope And Catholic Church To Marry Second Wife

War

Spanish Armada Defeated!

Bess Kills Plotter Mary

Horsing About With Size Creates Trouble

War Of Roses Is Over

Queen's Favourite Dies

Impostor Who Tried To Claim The Throne Of England Is Executed

Queen Glad To Spy Harder

Angry Henry Wrestles With Defeat

Mighty Mary Rose Sinks

Peace Signed At Berwick

Young Boy Who Tried To Claim The Crown Is Spared His Life By King

Iron Cannon Blasts Rivals

New Castle Built On Holy Island

Starving Sailors Eat Rope

Percy Game Launched

King James of Scotland Loses His Army And His Life To English

Food

Henry Builds New Kitchen

No Tine For Forks As Fingers Favoured

Pottage Stays Popular

'Young Must Drink Beer'

Stay In The Kitchen To Feel The Heat Of New Foods From Americas

Sport

New Bat Makes A Racquet

King Builds On Belief In Power Of Sport

Henry's Armour Shines

Boleyn's Bullseye Gift

New Football Boots Make Sport-Loving King Henry VIII Over The Moon

Top of Tudor era

Links to pages all about the Victorian period:

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Crime and Punishment

Murdering Mary Is Hanged!

Young Thugs Face Flogging

Gateshead Murder May Be Work of Ripper

Court Verdicts Revealed

Angel Of The Prisons Dies

Teenage Thief Starts New Life After Being Transported To Oz

GP Gets Wind Of Problem

Mother Hanged For Killing Child

Police - No Real Appeal

It's Time To Sober Up

Cops Cry 'On Your Bike' As Speeding Cyclists Fall Foul Of New Law

Police Pics Fight Crime

Durham Cops Stand Out In New Uniform

A Snap Judgement

Killer Brown To Face Rope

Old-Fashioned Fear Of Witchcraft Led To Old Man's Death

Germ Warfare

Our Florence Returns Home

African Joins British Army

Doctor Sets Lunatics Free From Chains

Facing Deadly Disease

Mary Seacole Tells Tales

Disease Killed More Soldiers Than The Enemy In Crimean War

Bitter Boers Attack Brits

Letter Sheds Light On Our Florence

Victorian Healthcare

Charge! Hero Returns Home

Tyneside Pit Villages Are Horribly Overcrowded, Says New Report

Sunderland Hit By Cholera

Father Fined For Blocking Pox Jab

In Fear Of Mrs Gamp

Horses Use Turkish Baths

Huge Fire Destroys Gateshead Slums - Hundreds Are Left Homeless

Kids, Canes and Classes

Pupils Run Riot In Class

Boy Killed After Bar Fall

Alice Hits Top Of The Best Seller List

1870 Brings Class Act

New Maths Adds Up

School Beating Ban After Child Thrashed Until Blood Flowed

Picnic Marks Jubilee

Mary Evans - Alias George Eliot - Dies

Pupil Wallops Teacher

100 Years Of Bible Class

Schoolgirl's Diary Tells Tales Of Regrets And Happiness

Classrooms Are Freezing

New Schools Plan Unveiled For Seghill

New Act Is Welcomed

Kipling Writes A Sequel

Teacher Canes Education Authority For Bad Pay And Bordom

New-Fangled Inventions

Exhibition Has Been Great!

The Fastest Ship On Earth

Ninety Kids Found In Lost Property

A Real Tour De Force!

Cook's Tours Capital Trip

Crystal Palace Engineer, Sir Charles Fox, Dies At The Age Of 64

Swan To Light Lord's Life

Palace Guide Proves Popular

Victoria And Albert Rule

Carpets Floor Crowds

Conservative MP Warns The Great Exhibition Will Bring Plague

Bone Hunters Find Fossils

Men Line Up For Crystal Palace Jobs

Beer Fuels Massive Build

Illuminated Window Wows

Rosetta Stone Solves The Mystery Of Egyptian Hieroglyphics

On The Move

A Dickens Of A Train Crash

Family Mourn Death Of Dad

Lifeboat Crews Save Hundred Of Sailors

Electric Trams Spark Up

Steam Power Takes Flight

MP Rescues Ladies When Madman Smashes Up The Pullman Train

Bikes Are The New Craze

Town's Shipbuilder Is Mourned By Many

'King' Is Sent To Jail

Red Letter Day For Post

Big Bang Strips Harbour Man As Port Celebrations Turn Strange

15mph Is Just Too Fast!

Holy Man Needs Cash For Submarine

Railways Ruin Canals

Gala Rail Plan Is Halted

Nine Holidaymakers Drown When Pleasure Boat Sinks At Sea

Work, Work, Work

Body Of Hero Pit Boy Found

Armstrong To Be Knighted

Shoe Workers Are In Fear For Their Jobs

Devoted To Children

Miners Found Dead

Government Minister Acts To Save Devoted Dad From The Gallows

Workhouse Complaints

Please Sir - Can I Have Some More?

Children Are Stitched Up

Tea Party As Family Freed

Working Mothers Are To Blame For The Death Of Babies From Drugs

17 Years In A Cellar

Outrage At Child Chimney Sweep's Death

Children In Pit Ban

Strong Cuppa Is Bang On!

Newcastle Street Is The First In The World To Be Lit By Electricity

Entertainment News

Elephant Man Dies, Aged 29

England's First Public Park Is Opened!

Hurray For Bicycle Belles

The Amazing Dancing Bear

Sport News

Sherry Adds A Kick To Game

Tennis Team Goes For Gold At Games

Bowled Over By Cricket

King Of The Ring Thrashed

It's Still Love All As Woman Beats Sister To Win Top Tennis Prize

Top of Victorian era

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A War Begins

We're Ready For You Hitler

Seeing Red Over Blackout

Monopoly Gets POWs Out Of Jail Free

Dr Carrot Makes Pea Plea

Gas Masks Are Given Out

New Law Means Men Aged 18 To 40 May Have To Fight In The War

Churchill Not Chamberlain

Warning - Careless Talk Costs Lives

Don't Forget Your Masks

Nazis Take Norway

Lord Haw Haw Is Left Red-Faced After Radio Broadcast Blunder

Gas Attack On Britain Likely

Jewish People Suffer At Hands of Nazis

Food Queues Lengthen

We Shall Never Surrender

Evacuated Children To Be Brought Home For A Family Christmas

Evacuation

Children Flee Big Cities

Bed Wetting Is A Problem

School Reduced To Rubble By Bomb

Ship Sunk - 256 Dead

Nation's Kids Evac To Coast

Young Evacuee Locked In A Birdcage And Starved By Host Family

Home For Christmas

From South Coast To South Wales

Billeting Staff Quit Jobs

Enough Food For Two Days

City Schools To Open For Those Children Who Stayed Behind

Enough Food For Two Days

Party Time For Lonely Kids

1,000 Evacuees Return Home From Essex

'We Will Not Be Moved'

Escape For Jewish Kids

Youngster Is Shot Dead By Big Brother After Arriving At New Home

Frontline

The End Is In Sight

Mass Dunkirk Rescue Works

British Torpedo Sinks The Bismarck

Battle Of Britain Rages

Brave Act Rewarded

Heroic Flight Engineer Climbs Onto The Wing Of His Blazing Bomber

Dambusters' Gibson Dies

Heavy Russian Losses As Nazis Invade

Soldier Tells Of Battle

Massive Attack On US Fleet

Monty Scores Major Victory To Overrun Nazis In North African Desert

Tyneside Ship Rescue

Nazis Put Down Jewish Rising In Poland

D-Day Landing Success

Weapon Plant Bombed

US Soldiers Relax With Music, Moonlight And Girls Before 'Big Push'

Home Front

Blitzed But Not Beaten!

I Spy A German Spy

Rolls-Royce Factory Disguised By Paint

Blitz Begins In London

Tourist Book Guides Bombs

57 Dead As Nazi Bombs Destroy Train Carrying Vital Food Supplies

Sweep's Dog Saves Girl

More People Help War Effort As Wardens

New Shelter Available

Sunderland Bombed

Hundreds Killed And Injured During Air Raids On Midlands City

Essex Suffers First Losses

Saint Protected Cathedral From Bombs?

Volunteer, Says Eden

London Tube Station Horror

Christmas In Hospital For Durham Victims Of Stray V1

Life At Work

Victory Is In Your Hands

Women Flock To Join WRNS

Welly Shortage Dampens The Spirits

Vital Role Of Land Army

Firefighters In Hot Water

Thirteen Workers Killed In Durham Mine Explosion

Land Of Hope And Italians

Factory Shows Its Cheeky Side To Hitler

Extra Work For No Pay

Parachute Dog Gets Medal

Brave Firefighters Travel Far And Wide To Answer Calls For Help

War Role For Young Women

Number One Land Girl Loves Farm Life

Bomb Store Explosion

Dimbleby At Death Camp

Men Left Behind At Home Desperate To Join Frontline Fighting

The End of War

The Germans Are Defeated!

Home Guard Stands Down

Concentration Camp Survivor Tells Story

VE Day Parties For All

The Lights Are Back On!

English War Brides Get Chance To Live With American Husbands

Devastation Of Atomic Bomb

Soldiers' New Suits Made By Burton's

Allied Prisoners Return

Death Camp Inmates Freed

More Than 800 Firefighters Perish And 7,000 Are Injured In War

Lawn Of A New Era At Bomb Factory

Plane-Spotters Keep Their Eyes To The Skies Despite End Of War

Victory Parade Seen On TV

Nazis To Be Put On Trial For War Crimes

Jewish Girl's Diary Safe

US Troops Return Home

Builders To Come Home First As British Forces Demobilise Troops

Entertainment

Entertaining Lunchtime

US Film Star Entertains Allied Troops

Glen Miller Missing

It's That Man Handley

Classic English Tale Gets Wartime Spin In Latest British Film

Sport

Freddie Mills Fights Fast

Government Handicaps Racing Fans

England Hammer Scots

War Beats Olympic Ideal

The Gloves Are Off As Boxers Struggle To Find New Equipment

Top of World War 2 era

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