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However the Yorkists were unwilling to accept the situation. In 1487 they attempted a rebellion. They claimed that a man named Lambert Simnel was Earl of Warwick and tried to put him on the throne. The Yorkists gathered an army in Ireland and landed in Cumbria.

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Religion, culture, social classes, and everything you want know about the Tudors!!!

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Religion, culture, social classes, and everything you want know about the Tudors!!!

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A revision slide show for AS Mid Tudor Crisis

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Building the house of Tudor

The Tudor era saw unprecedented upheaval in England. Between them the five Tudor kings and queens introduced huge changes that are still with us today.

The years between the crowning of Henry VII in 1485 and the death of Elizabeth I in 1603 saw the old religious order swept away, the establishment of the American colonies, the foundation of the Royal Navy and the power of Europe challenged.

The Royal Mail is founded

Henry VIII orders the creation of the first national postal service for royal mail.

Called 'The King's Posts', it was devised by Sir Brian Tuke and commanded all towns to have a fresh horse available for anyone carrying mail from the Tudor Court. This royal mail system was opened to the general public in 1635 by King Charles I - the start of the postal system we use today.
An interactive timeline of the Royal Mail

Royal Exchange sees trade flourish

Sir Thomas Gresham, known as the father of English banking, sets up the Royal Exchange - the first purpose-built centre for trading stocks in London.

However stock brokers are not allowed inside the building because of their rude manners, instead they operate from nearby coffee houses. Gresham helps persuade Elizabeth I's parliament to legalise money-lending, which allows the Crown to raise loans from home rather than abroad. Over time London takes over from Antwerp as the financial capital of Europe.
The history of London's Royal Exchange

Provisions for the poor

The dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII leaves many of the poorest without a safety net. Poor laws are introduced to help.

The Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 requires each parish to provide for the 'lame, impotent, old and blind'. Overseers collect a regular amount from parishioners according to their ability to pay. Over time this evolved into a more centralised system which is replaced by the modern welfare state in the 20th Century.
How could you survive in Tudor England?

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How the Tudor dynasty shaped modern Britain

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The Tudor era saw unprecedented upheaval in England. Between them the five Tudor kings and queens introduced huge changes that are still with us today. The years between the crowning of Henry VII in 1485 and the death of Elizabeth I in 1603 saw the old religious order swept away, the establishment of the American colonies, the foundation of the Royal Navy and the power of Europe challenged.

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The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty - Google Search

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The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty [G. J. Meyer] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Acclaimed historian G. J. Meyer provides a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty-and some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country.

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The Tudor era (1485-1603) has proved an irresistible period for filmmakers, perhaps because of the presence of so many larger than life figures. There are few depictions of the mature Henry VII - the only ones of note are John Woodnutt in the BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Peter Benson in The Black Adder - although he does feature in adaptations of Shakespeare's Richard III, played by actors such as Stanley Baker and Dominic West. Neither Edward VI nor Queen Mary have been much better served, although the latter is played by a memorably deranged Kathy Burke in Elizabeth (1998). But the story of Henry VIII and his wives has been replayed many times on film and TV with two series taking us through his reign - the largely historically accurate Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) starring Keith Michell and the not remotely accurate The Tudors (2007-10) with Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a notably un-obese Henry. Elizabeth has also had her share of exposure, with a notable BBC series, Elizabeth R (1971), covering the whole reign.

Anna Boleyn (1920)

Director Ernst Lubitsch

This isn't the first film to feature Henry VIII - the first, a British production from 1911 is lost - but it is the first to really set him in the imagination as a colourful figure. This is largely due to the performance of Emil Jannings, on his way to becoming a major star of German cinema, who imbues the monarch with a surfeit of dangerous charisma, prone to alternate fits of merriment and tyrannical aggression.

The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)

Director Alexander Korda

Designed specifically as a vehicle for Charles Laughton and his wife Elsa Lanchester, Alexander Korda's film builds on the Jannings template and once and for all establishes the image of Henry on screen as a roistering, capricious child suddenly finding himself the most powerful man in the world. Once again, as is the case with most films in this list, historical accuracy is very low on the agenda, but this handsomely mounted production does succeed in giving Henry a certain vulnerability, focusing on the marriages rather than the politics. It virtually ignores Catherine of Aragon, beginning instead with the execution of Anne Boleyn, and it's Lanchester who gets the best of the female roles as Anne of Cleves.

As he had done in his previous film, Island of Lost Souls (1932), Laughton never fails to be at the centre of his scenes but he rarely goes over the top, kept in check by Korda's firm direction and a flavoursome script from Lajos Biró and Arthur Wimperis. Significantly for Korda, and the national film industry too, it was one of the first British films to be a massive hit in the United States, and Laughton won an Oscar for his performance.

Mary of Scotland (1936)

One of the most unlikely productions to have been undertaken by John Ford, Mary of Scotland is, according to his biographers, largely significant as evidence of his grand romantic passion for Katharine Hepburn. Certainly, the film is packed with Joseph August's rapturous monochrome close-ups of Hepburn - who looks stunning but plays Mary Queen of Scots with an occasionally irksome kind of moping petulance - while showing considerably less interest in characters who should be important such as Bothwell, played as a rather damp romantic lead by Fredric March.

However, Ford was incapable of making a totally uninteresting film, and there are some powerful scenes, particularly those involving Elizabeth I (played by Florence Eldridge), a part which is much better written than Mary. Mary's personal secretary David Rizzio is also played with interesting shading by John Carradine. The film tends to reduce the political intrigues to the level of a cheap romance but ends with a rousing trial sequence.

Fire over England (1937)

The whole production is dressed to kill and allows for choice titbits from a strong cast, which includes a very young James Mason, Robert Newton and a devilishly nasty Raymond Massey as Philip II of Spain.

The Sea Hawk (1940)

Director Michael Curtiz

Flora Robson repeats her Elizabeth in this Hollywood blockbuster. This one also deals with the period around 1588 but does so as a vehicle for a team reunited from The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938): director Michael Curtiz, composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold and stars Errol Flynn, Alan Hale and Claude Rains. Flynn's character Geoffrey Thorpe is loosely based on Francis Drake (with a lot of additional acrobatic swashbuckling), while Rains plays Don Alvarez, a Spanish rogue with perfect English diction who gets to be half of a villainous double act with treacherous nobleman Henry Daniell. Elizabeth and Thorpe do a lot of flirting with each other but he ends up with a Spanish beauty called Dona Maria.

It's clear, however, that Elizabeth's real love affair is with her country, as the film culminates in a patriotic speech about liberty against tyranny that was clearly meant to refer as much to Britain in 1940 as the country during the Tudor period. Generally considered one of Errol Flynn's best films, it's particularly memorable for Korngold's musical score - a major influence on next-generation film composers such as Elmer Bernstein and John Williams.

Mary Queen of Scots (1971)

Director Charles Jarrott

Carry On Henry (1971)

Director Gerald Thomas

It says a lot for the public perception of Henry VIII in 1972 that a lot of critics commented that Sid James was perfect casting for the role. Certainly, he seems to be having a whale of a time, bolstered not only by a welter of old jokes from Talbot Rothwell but also Barbara Windsor and Joan as two extra wives invented for the occasion. This might bring the historical veracity of the film into question - a suspicion bolstered by an appearance from Guy Fawkes who wasn't born until 23 years after Henry's death.

It looks rather more lavish than the other series entries from the period, largely due to the use of costumes from Anne of the Thousand Days which was filmed in the UK in 1969. Otherwise it's business as usual with entertaining contributions from the regulars - and surely even the most po-faced detractors must surely raise a smile at the casting of Charles Hawtrey as a highly-sexed character called Sir Roger De Lodgerley.

Orlando (1992)

Unable to meet the requirements of masculinity in the 17th century, Orlando becomes a woman and is embroiled in a court case that seeks to prove that she was a woman all along and thus not entitled to the land bestowed upon her. This is accompanied by a variety of witty encounters with a bitchy critic of poetry, various historical figures and a romantic hero straight out of a novel. Needless to say, Potter's film is like nothing else ever made and the Tudor scenes are especially special, not least for the rather touching (and not remotely camp) casting of Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth.

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

By far the biggest commercial success of any film on this list, Shakespeare in Love is perhaps weighed down by its award-winning reputation and deserves to be reconsidered as a witty light romantic comedy with sharp dialogue and amusing performances. In dealing with Shakespeare's problems while writing Romeo and Juliet, it suggests that he found inspiration in a love affair with an actress named Viola whom he first meets while she is dressed as a man.

The film is packed with references both subtle (The Merchant of Venice) and obvious (Twelfth Night) to Shakespeare's other plays, as well as with figures from contemporary history including the Earl of Wessex and Edmund Tilney (portrayed as one-note villains), the actors Richard Burbage and Ned Alleyn, and fellow writers Christopher Marlowe and John Webster. Its tone of romantic longing and lusty comedy hit the spot with the late-1990s audience, as did Judi Dench 's Oscar-winning performance as Elizabeth I. Appearing for only eight minutes, she just about walks away with the whole film.

Elizabeth (1998)

Historical accuracy is again in short supply in Shekhar Kapur 's political thriller, based on events around Elizabeth's accession to the throne, but it doesn't really matter because it's done with such immense vitality and suspense that you don't get chance to think until it's over. Contentious matters include the attempt to make the Virgin Queen less so, the depiction of the Duke of Anjou as a voracious homosexual, and the portrayal of Robert Dudley as not only the Queen's lover but also a conspirator against her.

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Wolf Hall and The Tudors don't have the monopoly on bringing the era of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I back to life - like the newly restored Oscar-winner A Man for All Seasons, these 10 terrific Tudor films take you there.