Don’t lose your head: The ordeals of Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII

Published: Feb. 26, 2014, 1:15 p.m.

Tom Freeman, Lecturer in History at the University of Essex, is a leading expert on England in the sixteenth century. In this presentation to the Department’s Research Seminar, he talks about the cut-throat court politics that defined the fortunes of Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife, Katherine Parr. To find out more about history at Essex go to: http://www.essex.ac.uk/history/