Elizabeth herself gave her cousin the benefit of the doubt until 1586, when she discovered Mary had corresponded with Anthony Babington, who was plotting to depose her.

A rebellious child, Churchill was sent to Harrow boarding school near London in 1888, in the hope that discipline would settle him into his studies. This was not entirely successful.

Research, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, found there to be a 582% increase in the number of children home educated in London over the last ten years.

What are these educational acronyms, why do we need them, and where do they come from?

Henry VIII turned a Catholic country into a Protestant one. Overnight, all people, no matter who they were, had to change their religion too.

There are lots of different jobs for the monks and the nuns to do, including working in the herb garden and making medicines.

John Ball is a priest, but only a poor one. He says the Church is too rich and he’s been travelling around the countryside encouraging peasants to rebel.

The people who live in towns are generally the traders and craftspeople. It’s where we go to buy our candles, cloth, ribbon, any extra food…

One in three people in the whole country have died. And amongst priests, the death rate is even higher.

Henry made Thomas his closest adviser and they went everywhere together. But then Henry made Thomas his Archbishop of Canterbury and it all went wrong…