Wax figure of Elizabeth I at Madame Tussauds London. Photo May 1998.
I swear I didn’t plan it so that this photo of Elizabeth would come one day after the 451st anniversary of her becoming queen. Happily, It just worked out that way!
I’m only a few days behind on this one! Showtime announced last week that the fourth and final season of The Tudors will premiere in the US on Sunday April 11, 2010.
Okay, it was actually several weeks ago, but most of October was a blur for me…
The publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, has more information and some excerpts up on their web page for the book.
And here are the Amazon links again, now with the US one. And again, thanks to everyone who purchases through my affiliate links. I appreciate it!
Unfortunately I’ve managed to miss posting about Suzannah Lipscomb’s other talks in the US, but I can at least get this one in under the wire:
“Prince to Tyrant: What Changed Henry VIII” by Suzannah Lipscomb, Research curator at Hampton Court Palace
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 at 6 p.m.
Fordham University
Tognino Hall
Duane Library
Rose Hill Campus
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, New York 10458
Instead of bombarding everyone with a bunch of individual posts, here are three links that caught my eye in the past few days that I didn’t get a chance to post.
* From The Telegraph:
Rags to riches as tapestry masterpiece is restored to its former glory
A tapestry that has survived against the odds since the fifteenth century is to go on display for the first time in 20 years, following five years of restoration returning the masterpiece to its former glory.
* From The Guardian:
David Starkey on Henry VIII: Famous for 500 years
In this podcast, David Starkey asks why Henry continues to fascinate us in the 21st century, and how did a boy with such a conventional upbringing become such an unconventional king?
* From The BBC:
The map that changed the world
Almost exactly 500 years ago, in 1507, Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure Germanic scholars based in the mountains of eastern France, made one of the boldest leaps in the history of geographical thought – and indeed in the larger history of ideas.
Near the end of an otherwise plodding treatise titled Introduction to Cosmography, they announced to their readers the astonishing news that the world did not just consist of Asia, Africa, and Europe, the three parts of the world known since antiquity. A previously unknown fourth part of the world had recently been discovered, they declared, by the Italian merchant Amerigo Vespucci, and in his honour they had decided to give it a name: America.
Showtime has created a video game based on The Tudors series. The trailer is embedded below and you can learn more about the game at this link. There is a flash-based demo on that page, as well as a link to a download demo (it appears to be Windows-only).
