The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre

Date	4 November - 9 December 2025
Sessions	Tuesdays: 12:30pm - 2:30pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 10
Cost	FREE - £48

About this course

Henry VIII’s six wives - we are all familiar with these women, or are we? This course will look at their lives and experiences from their perspective. You will discuss and assess whether they where they helpless tools in the hands of ambitious men? Or did they play a role in their own destinies? Come and examine the lives of these very different women; and make your own mind up.

During the course, we will cover: -

Introduction to 16th century England and the role of women. -
Learn about the lives of these six women, the families they came from, their education and their beliefs. -
Evaluate the impact the women had on the wider political, social and religious spheres. -
Discover what impact, if any, did the new ideas of the 16th century have on them. -
Look at a number of sources, primary and secondary as we will examine how they have been portrayed through different mediums through time.

Please bring with you to the course:-

A drink, notepad and pen

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014