The British Museum has announced a major new exhibition of Italian Renaissance drawings , featuring 15th-century artworks so delicate they only go on view once in a generation. Among the 100 or so works will be sketches by Titian, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.

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King Henry VIII’s flagship the Mary Rose, a Tudor time capsule likened to a British Pompeii, has won crucial funding for a hi-tech museum to house the fabled warship and its previously unseen treasures.

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Why are we asking this now’ Because the Vatican has just announced that it will market 200 facsimile copies of the elaborately decorated parchment from 1530, which bore an appeal by English peers to Pope Clement VII asking for the annulment of the marriage of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon.

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A Henry VIII lookalike was carried through the centre of London on a rowing boat on Saturday morning as part of a Tudor River Pageant to mark the 500th anniversary of the king’s coronation.

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The Empire of Mandelsonia, as it is being called, continues to be the only topic of conversation at Westminster.

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Fourteen objects from already-famous Mexico City dig to go on display in British Museum.

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