Henry VIII likely commissioned this painting of the Field of Cloth of Gold toward the end of his ... Getty Images Wolsey orchestrated the 1520 summit much like he’d spearheaded the treaty ...

A painting of The Field of the Cloth of Gold (around 1545) in Hampton Court Palace, by an unnamed British artist Photo: Royal Collection Trust One of the great lost temporary works was a pop-up ...

the unnamed narrator describes the early “halcyon days” of the field. But things are never quite the same after the arrival of the urbane Thomas; his showy octagonal tent and long flowing ...

The ostensible purpose of the Field of Cloth of Gold was to celebrate a “Universal Peace” that Henry’s chief minister Cardinal Thomas Wolsey had negotiated in 1518: a deal that aimed to ...

As we head towards the summer months, the exciting Thomas Wolsey 550 programme ... near Calais, at the Field of Cloth of Gold - a meeting where the tents were covered in gold, a fountain ran ...

He is the most British of anarchists, something that his brilliantly crafty seventh novel, The Field of the Cloth of Gold, makes explicit. The field of the title sits in a bend of a river ...

The Field of the Cloth of Gold, by Magnus Mills (Bloomsbury). The unnamed narrator of this deadpan comic parable about greed and divisiveness is among the first settlers of a “Great Field” by ...

Known as the Field of Cloth of Gold, the two-and-a-half-week summit featured feasts, jousts, wrestling matches, masques and an endless stream of entertainment. Neither France’s Francis I nor ...

Dr John Blatchly is the chairman of the Patrons of the Cardinal Thomas Wolsey Appeal, while sculptor David Annand was chosen from a field of 50 to produce the artwork. Image caption, A cat clings ...

A painting of The Field of the Cloth of Gold (around 1545) in Hampton Court Palace, by an unnamed British artist Photo: Royal Collection Trust One of the great lost temporary works was a pop-up ...