The Story of London

In early 1554, there was what by all accounts was a minor rebellion against Queen Mary Tudor down in Kent. And it was a minor rebellion. Except to London. In our city it became this fraught, tense affair; with with Queen risking everything and making

The story returns after a brief hiatus with the opening months of the reign of Queen Mary Tudor… and we examine how and why London had gone from the place that exploded in joy at her proclamation as Queen… to hundreds of armed Londoners joining an a

Continuing and concluding the saga of the reign of Lady Jane Grey and her brief moment on the throne, the story follows the dramatic sudden twists, that were to see a London haberdasher suddenly become most important man in the kingdom for a few hours,

In July 1553, London witnessed a new Queen- Jane Grey, cousin of the late teenager Edward VI. her story is supposedly this tragic romantic tale of an innocent young woman placed upon the throne by an ambitious father-in-law… But as this chapter will

The last two years of the reign of Edward VI were VERY busy for London; there was a economic crisis to get out from under; there were brutal storms which devastated Flanders, which the cities merchants could exploit; there was the successful removal of