Richard III's story runs from Middleham Castle in Yorkshire to Bosworth Field, where he died in 1485, and on to Leicester, where his grave was found under a car park in 2012.
The route follows his childhood at Middleham, the battle of Tewkesbury, the princes at the Tower of London, his last charge at Bosworth, and the Greyfriars dig and cathedral tomb in Leicester. The exact Bosworth battlefield is still debated.
Thomas Cromwell rises from a Putney childhood to become Henry VIII's most trusted minister, then falls in the same Tudor politics he mastered. Hilary Mantel's trilogy follows him from Cardinal Wolsey's household through the Reformation, Anne Boleyn's rise and execution, and his own last years.
This route traces the places that anchor the story: Cromwell's birthplace and London house, Wolsey's palaces at York Place and Esher, the abbey where Wolsey died, Westminster Abbey for Anne's coronation, the Seymour seat that gives the novels their title, Hampton Court, and the Tower. The 2015 television adaptation used Dover Castle for the Tower of London and Penshurst Place for Whitehall.
En el verano de 1588, una flota española apareció frente a Cornualles con el plan de unirse al ejército de Parma. Unos fuegos de aviso llevaron la noticia a Londres, la flota inglesa salió de Plymouth y, en pocas semanas, los brulotes, un día de intenso cañoneo y las tormentas de otoño acabaron con el plan.
La ruta sigue la campaña a lo largo de siete lugares, desde el primer avistamiento hasta una playa del condado de Sligo donde se hicieron pedazos tres barcos. La mayor parte del combate fue en el mar, por lo que los marcadores señalan el punto de referencia más cercano de la costa, y la historia de Drake y su partida de bolos en Plymouth se presenta como leyenda.
