How can it already be time for the May round-up?!? Books Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn by Stephen Porter was released last fall in the UK and on … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tudor History news and events
Books A few books that have already been out for a while in the UK will be released in April in the US: Amy Licence’s Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII’s True Wife is now out in … Continue reading
More buildings to save your pence for! * Thornbury Castle, Honeymoon Spot of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, On Sale for $10.3 million – Although since this one is also a hotel, I think I would settle for just staying … Continue reading
Books Giles Tremlett’s Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen, which was released in February in the UK, will be out on March 7 in the US: Events Nicola Tallis, author of Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady … Continue reading
I haven’t had some historical dream properties on the Sunday Short Takes for a while and now we have three. Save your pennies! * This Elizabethan country house is for sale for the first time in 500 years – Plas … Continue reading
Books A book slipped past me in January, as I suspected! (surprised there weren’t more…) First up is The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens by Roland Hui (and if I may be so presumptuous, a long-time friend … Continue reading
Welcome to the first round-up of 2017! I admit that I had a couple of things to post last week but I totally and completely forgot about it until about 9:00 p.m. on Sunday. So, here are a couple of … Continue reading
Happy 2017! Not a whole lot of things to start the year, but once again, I’m sure I’m missing a lot of stuff! Books First of the Tudors by Joanna Hickson was released in December in the UK and will … Continue reading
I wanted to get this final round-up of 2016 actually *in* 2016, hence the Saturday post. A lot of stories piled up in the final weeks of 2016 that I never got around to posting, so this is going to … Continue reading
Books A couple of books that have already been released in the UK are out in the US this month: Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey by Nicola Tallis will be out December 6 in the … Continue reading
How about a round-up of some now-very-outdated-news? 🙂 I’ve skipped the “Marlowe as Shakespeare Co-author” news stories since you couldn’t swing a dead poet without hitting those, so here are a few other things from the past month and a … Continue reading
Books A few books that have already been released in the UK will be out in the US this month – First up is The Tudors in 100 Objects by John Matusiak which was released August 1 in the UK … Continue reading
Books Starting out with a number of books that slipped past me in the previous months… First up is The Tudors in 100 Objects by John Matusiak which was released August 1 in the UK and will be out in … Continue reading
Good grief, I didn’t expect a month to go by before I got a chance to do one of these again… To say that things have been busy lately would be a wild understatement. The good news is that I’ve … Continue reading
It’s been ages since I’ve done a standalone post about an upcoming event after I started doing the monthly round-ups, but I wanted to get this one that takes place at the end of September out there in time for … Continue reading
New books One book I missed from last month is Wendy J. Dunn’s Falling Pomegranate Seeds, a novel about Katherine of Aragon: And out at the end of this month in the UK is Anne Boleyn in London by Lissa … Continue reading
Big story from a couple of weeks ago! * Elizabeth I Armada portrait saved with help of 8,000 donors – A portrait of Elizabeth I has become public property, after an appeal helped raise £10.3m to buy it. And a … Continue reading
New Books One new release this month – Scourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise by Melanie Clegg is out August 30 in the UK and later in the fall in the US. It’s great to see … Continue reading
The big story of the week was the re-opening of The Mary Rose Museum, which now gives visitors a full view of the dried remains of the ship. Here is a selection of stories about the event: * Newly decked … Continue reading
Time for a Sunday Short Takes! * Dynastic Rivalry and Digital Reconstruction at Bradgate House – Interesting work on the reconstruction of Bradgate House for a new visitors center at Bradgate Park. * Tudor Calendar Photography Competition – The Anne … Continue reading
