Feels weird doing this while part of my state drowns but other than some small donations there isn’t a whole lot I can do at this point until the rain stops here and elsewhere (and it looks like that won’t … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tudor History news and events
Mix of stuff this week! * Sad news to start with: Robert Hardy, star of Harry Potter and All Creatures Great & Small, dies aged 91 – Although most of the articles I saw focused on his recent work in … Continue reading
Books A nice variety of new books of interest are due out in August! First up is Amy Licence’s latest work, The Lost Kings: Lancaster, York and Tudor, which is due out August 1 in the UK and in early … Continue reading
More entries for the “OMG I want to win the lottery and buy this place!” wishlist! First up is Otley Hall in Suffolk, which was mostly built in the 16th century. You can see the listing at Savills here. And … Continue reading
Time for another round-up! Finally got a few stories to post. * Archaeology Week at the Mary Rose Museum – During the Festival of Archaeology 2017 the Mary Rose Museum welcome visitors to hear from archaeologists involved in the world’s … Continue reading
Books Elizabeth Norton’s The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History (US title) has been out for a while in the UK and will be out at the beginning of July in the US. One book I missed a … Continue reading
Short round-up, but at least I won’t get way behind this way… 🙂 * Henry VII Pembroke birthplace statue put in place – I first posted about this seven years ago, so it’s nice to see it finally come to … Continue reading
Books Just one new release this month, Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship, 1485-1547 by Retha Warnike, another volume of the Queenship and Power series. As you may guess from the cost, this is one of … Continue reading
Yes, finally, another long-overdue news round-up! I thought that I would be able to stay on top of things a lot better after the four major things at work were done, but of course everything that got put off during … Continue reading
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
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
