Happy 516th! You barely look a day over 450.
Here’s a post from the Oxford University Press blog for the occasion.
Month: June 2007
North Wales Church with Tudor ancestral connections vandalized
This is just sickening:
A church’s Elizabethan Tudor Rose window has been smashed to bits by thieves just a fortnight after clergymen proudly showed it off to the Prince of Wales.
They climbed in through the remains of the stained glass window at St Gredifael Church in Penymynydd, Anglesey, seized an ancient cannonball and hurled it through another Elizabethan window.
This is the window that was smashed, which some of you might recognize as the image that used to be on the front page of the website:
Click on the image to go to a page with a little bit more about the window and a link to the full sized picture. I’ve also got a few other pictures of the church itself, which I visited in 2000. (I’m in the process of re-doing all my photos from the negatives, so at some point I’ll have some nicer and bigger versions of the church photos up.)
Couple of new photos from “The Tudors” season 2
Click on the thumbnails for a larger view.
Images courtesy Jonathan Hession/Showtime
Looking for the bones of Richard III
From the Leicester Mercury
The mystery has baffled historians for centuries – what became of the remains of Richard III?
Folklore and many history books claim that the king’s bones were dug up and hurled into the River Soar some 50 years after his death in 1485.
Others contend that they remain where they were laid.
Archaeologists may get the chance to find out when they excavate the site of the former Greyfriars Church, in St Martins, Leicester.
Couple of short news items
Sixteenth Century Falconry tag to be auctioned
A rare silver varvel, or falcon’s tag, that belonged to the powerful and oppressive lawyer, Richard Rich, is to be sold at auction in July.
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This silver tag is of shield form with one side engraved “Lord Rich” above a na
Anne Boleyn a Squib?
So, how many of my fellow Tudor/Harry Potter fans out there got a chuckle out of the question above on the third W.O.M.B.A.T. exam at J.K. Rowling’s website?
Tudor-era gatehouse unearthed at the Tower of London
From 24 Hour Museum:
Extensive archaeological remains of an old guard house dating to the Tudor and Jacobean periods have been uncovered at the Tower of London.
Staff were relaying a cobblestone path across Tower Green to conform with disability regulations when they found evidence of walls, which turned out to be the remains of a substantial building.
Miniature of Elizabeth sells at auction
From Art Daily (with a larger photo of the miniature)
A previously unrecorded portrait miniature of Queen Elizabeth I circa 1595/1600 by Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) (estimate:
Peter O’Toole to appear in “The Tudors” second season
Variety and several other sites are reporting that film legend Peter O’Toole will be joining the cast of “The Tudors” as Pope Paul III in the second season. As the Variety article notes, O’Toole has played a King Henry with Church troubles himself… in his case Henry II in “Becket” and “The Lion in Winter” (one of my favorite movies!).
Elizabethan tapestry re-discovered
… and up for sale. Got a spare
