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2008-11-12 Heny VIII and religion: Hello Katie. The main reason is that he wanted a divorce from Katherine of Aragon, but under the Catholic Church only the Pope could grant a divorce, and he wouldn't in Henry's case. So he simply created...
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2008-11-09 World War 1: Hello Natasha. Prior to World War I Great Britain did not want to see the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, it saw Turkey as a useful ally against Russian expansion. GB did annex Cyprus in 1878 to...
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2008-10-28 Queen's: Hello Michael. I must admit I'm not very good at identifying people from paintings, they all look the same to me from that period. She's certainly Elizabethan or Jacobean and could possibly be Mary,...
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2008-10-22 Reformation: Hello Lauren. 1529 is the year that the Reformation really began to take off in England. Before that it had been a problem for central Europe only. The Parliament that met in November and December 1529...
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2008-09-12 Henry VIII: Hello Simon. In Tudor times the whole business of government was paid for by the monarch, so that along with wars and the building/strengthening of defences swallowed up much of the King's finances. Henry...
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