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Month: April 2010
Picture of the Week #69
Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 1998.
Sunday short takes
Short round-up this week!
* Follow-up to the story from the Sunday short takes two weeks ago – Design for statue of Cardinal Wolsey revealed
* Conservation work beginning on the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey – There is an interesting short video story linked at the bottom of the page.
Picture of the Week #68
Looking across the Avon at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 1998.
Picture of the Week #67
Gardens at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 1998.
Sunday short takes
And to complete the catch-up on stuff, a Sunday short takes!
* BBC History Magazine offers a digital sample from their March 2010 issue (which has two Tudor history related articles)
* Spectator article about Mary Grey by Leanda de Lisle
* Little Miss Sunnydale’s Flickr set retracing Anne Boleyn’s coronation procession through modern London
* An article on the enduring popularity of the Tudors
Shakespeare Dig Begins
The dig at New Place that I posted about last November has begun! Here are some articles about the early finds:
From The Guardian:
Dig seeks William Shakespeare’s shards for ale in his Stratford back garden
Pottery scraps and other finds unearthed on site of New Place mansion may help to rewrite playwright’s story
Archaeologists in Stratford-upon-Avon have made a sensational discovery: Shakespeare’s broken beer jug. Possibly.
Scraps of pottery, broken clay pipe and a 19th century penny have emerged from a muddy hole in what was a garden until a week ago. But this is the most extensive hunt for Shakespeare in his own backyard in 150 years, and every scrap is precious.
In 1597 the playwright returned from London a rich and famous man and bought New Place, the second best house in his home town. He had a fair copy made of his title deeds, now in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, owner of the site and a string of other properties linked with the most famous playwright in the world. The house vanished centuries ago but Birmingham Archaeology and volunteers are joining forces to recover any evidence left in the ground.
And another from The Telegraph:
Archaeologists dig up Shakespeare’s ‘cesspit’
Archaeologists believe they are on the cusp of shedding new light on the life of William Shakespeare
More on “Death and the Virgin”
I totally forgot about several posts in my “draft” folder! So this article is a couple of weeks old – sorry!
Here’s an article by the author of “Death and the Virgin”, Chris Skidmore, from The Express:
A TUDOR MURDER MYSTERY
Was Elizabeth I implicated in the death of Amy Robsart, neglected wife of dashing Lord Robert Dudley, widely believed to have been the Queen’s lover? The author of a new book, Chris Skidmore, has fresh evidence.
It is a 450-year-old mystery that has baffled generations of historians.
One September afternoon in 1560, Amy Robsart, the wife of Lord Robert Dudley, Queen Elizabeth I
Picture of the Week #66
Mary Arden’s Farm. Photo May 1998.
This is another place on my list of places to revisit on a future trip to England. I spent the previous day in Stratford, but only stopped briefly at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and Mary Arden’s Farm and didn’t actually go in to either property. But I was happy with the few photos I got on my way up to Warwick.
[Update: As Marilyn pointed out in the comments – I totally forgot that this property was re-identified as Palmer’s Farm in 2000, even though I posted about it on the old News Page (the pre-blog blog) and changed it on my personal homepage travel section. Age is catching up to me!]
