The world of Tudors is all around you. It surrounds you as you walk through the entrance gate of a great college in Oxford or Cambridge, or stand looking up at a chapel ceiling beautifully decorated with elaborate fans of stone. In a town like Shrewsbury, you can walk streets that almost look the same as they did four hundred years ago.

In amazing places like Hampton court , in London, you could just imagine how rich and powerful the Tudors' lived. Tudor monarchs liked palaces. By the time he died Henry VIII had 55.Inside the palaces, we could still see the Tudor's tapestries, silver candlestick and even fine furniture. Elizabeth I even had a chair with an adjustable back.

Hundreds of maps and engravings show us what Tudor life was like years ago. Beautiful paintings show foreign ambassadors visiting Britain, Who were dressed in magnificent clothing carrying the latest scientific inventions.

Millions of written words still survive from the Tudor times. There secret state papers, sea captains' journals, even a few diaries. The words of William Shakespeare are recited every night in our theatres every night. Tudor street names survive. They do not make puddings in Pudding Lane but the name lives on.

We even use Tudor expressions. Rich people give silver spoons as christening gifts, and we sill say a wealthy family's baby is 'born with a silver spoon in it's mouth'.

A wreck raised from the sea in Portsmouth in 1982 was found to have preserved a glimpse of Tudor life It was Henry VIII's warship the, Mary Rose, which sank in 1545. We can now still visit the restored ship and see the remains of the ship that has been left. There are about 14,000 objects that still survive that include weapons, pewter, dishes, musical instruments, leather shoes and backgammon set.

By Faith