The November 2006 episode of the podcast is now up!
BTW, sorry things have been kind of quiet on this blog lately… I haven’t found a whole lot of articles that caught my attention and I’ve been pretty busy (after recovering from that stupid head cold).
Back in January I posted some links to articles of a possible period portrait of Lady Jane Grey. Here’s a follow-up from The Guardian:
The National Portrait Gallery has bought a painting believed to be of Lady Jane Grey - until now the only English monarch since Henry VII thought to lack a contemporary or near-contemporary portrait.
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Dendrochronology, by which a piece of wood can be accurately dated, has established that the panel on which it is painted was cut down around 1593. So the picture was painted around 50 years after Lady Jane’s execution.
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Tarnya Cooper, of the National Portrait Gallery, believes it is a copy of a lost original, possibly created in Lady Jane’s lifetime.
This was an interesting article that came through on my news alerts:
Peter Snow and Ralph Grimston met a grisly end atop York’s Micklegate Bar.
The pair were last seen gazing down at passers-by in the street below. Their severed heads had been attached to spikes.
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Four centuries later, after their skulls were found near Tadcaster, forensic experts from Dundee University have used computer software to reconstruct their faces.
