I think this week has a record number of videos! But first, another in the long string of historical properties I’d love to be able to afford: This lovely late-16th century home can be yours for just £1,250,000! A follow-up … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tudor History news and events
It should be no surprise that there was a lot of news last week coinciding with the premiere of “Wolf Hall”! I’ve just a made a few selections from a bunch of articles that came across my path. * Adapting … Continue reading
Here’s what caught my eye in the past week or so! * How Thomas Wolsey made Hampton Court fit for a king * Lucy Worsley: the fuss over Prince George was nothing compared to the uproar over Henry VIII’s son … Continue reading
Books As far as I know there was only one book from December that I missed, the paperback release of David Loades’ Catherine Howard: The Adulterous Wife of Henry VIII. And I only have one new US release – Pirate … Continue reading
Last one of 2014! * Me, me, me … the Elizabethan earl who kept portrait painters busy for 30 years – If you can tell a person by their collection of paintings, what are we to make of Robert Dudley, … Continue reading
Image: British Library Here are the stories that caught my eye this past week: * The best history books of 2014 – Jessie Childs’ God’s Traitors is on this list and several other year end history book round-ups. I really … Continue reading
As promised, here is my round-up of the latest news on Richard III! First up, I wanted to point to this article about how to apply to attend the Richard III services and reinterment in March 2015. Information on the … Continue reading
Of course, the big story this week was the newest round of results and discoveries from the continued testing of the skeleton of Richard III. I’ll recap all of that in a separate post since there is a lot of … Continue reading
Wax figures of Henry VIII and his wives up for auction. Photo: BBC. Sorry for the lack of news round-ups this month, I’ve been trying to cram too much catch-up stuff into the weekends lately! So here’s several weeks’ worth … Continue reading
Yes, two blog posts in one day! I would love to say that I used my extra hour from the time change for extra productivity, but in reality I was catching up on about two weeks’ worth of not enough … Continue reading
A mixed bag of stuff this week: * Richard III reinterment: Details king’s final ceremonial route through Leicestershire revealed * http://westminster-abbey.org/press/news/2014/october/westminster-abbey-submits-plans-for-new-access-tower – This is a continuation of a story I mentioned back in 2010 And just for fun: * Here’s … Continue reading
Just a few stories this week! * Five Things From the Mary Rose That’ll Make You Go ‘Oooh’! – Actually, I would say these make you go “Eewwwww” more than “Oooh”! * Choral music not heard since era of Henry … Continue reading
So… yeah… I completely forgot to write this post last weekend to get it out before the end of the month. Whoops! And *that’s* why I have now put a reminder on my Google calendar for the 27th of every … Continue reading
The biggest story of the week were further details on the death of Ricard III – * King Richard III’s Final Moments Were Quick & Brutal * King Richard III killed by blows to skull * Richard III died in … Continue reading
The National Portrait Gallery’s The Real Tudors opened this week, so there was quite a but of coverage of that (although my pre-order of the accompanying book still hasn’t shipped from Amazon – grrrr). * The Tudors as we’ve never … Continue reading
Back with another round-up, including a few things I should have posted last week! * This week’s BBC History Extra podcast features Tracy Borman speaking on Thomas Cromwell, the subject of her new book and cover article for BBC History … Continue reading
Books I missed it last month, so here’s Debra Bayani’s Jasper Tudor: Godfather of the Tudor Dynasty – now out in the US and UK. The Amazon links below go to the full color edition, but there is a less-expensive … Continue reading
It seems that I have things *mostly* back to normal, so here’s this week’s news round-up! * 2015 Anne Boleyn Files Tudor Places Calendar Now Available – The 2015 version of Claire’s excellent calendar, once again filled with gorgeous images … Continue reading
I only had one news story this week but it’s a pretty important one so I wanted to mention it: * King Richard lll to be reinterred in March 2015 – The date of the service in which Richard lll … Continue reading
Books James Evans’ Merchant Adventurers was released last year in the UK and the US version, with the slightly different title Tudor Adventurers, is due out on August 15. And Terry Breverton’s Jasper Tudor: The Man Who Made the Tudor … Continue reading
