Norwich Castle. Photo May 2015.
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St James the Great Church, Castle Acre, Norfolk. Photo May 2015.
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Gardens at Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Photo May 2015.
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Woodland walk at Oxburgh Hall. Photo May 2015.
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Elizabethan Gardens at Kenilworth Castle. Photo May 2015.
This isn’t all that different from at least one other Picture of the Week, but I took A LOT of photos of the gardens, so there will be a few kind of similar ones as I continue to work my way through all of these pictures. (I can’t believe it’s been nearly 10 years since that visit!)
Upcoming Books for February 2025
Hello February! Sorry this is a few days later than usual – I had to take advantage of the great weather we were having to get out and doing a little walking and tackle some yard work while everything is dead/dormant.
We have a couple of previous UK releases that will be out in the US this month, starting with Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots by Jade Scott, which will be out on February 4 in the US.
And next is Stephen David’s Birth of the Red Dragon: Wales and the Wars of the Roses, which came out in the UK in September and will be out on February 11 in the US.
And in new books this month, or possibly last month – Mary Tudor Queen of France by Amy McElroy appears to have come out on January 30, although I originally had it released in February on my tracking sheet. It is due out in late April in the US.
And that’s all for this month! Since I have stopped using Twitter and not enough of the people I used to follow have made it over to other platforms I’m experimenting with, it might be hard for me to be in the loop about upcoming books and events. But I’ll continue to keep an eye out!
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“Romeo and Juliet” in the First Folio. Photo May 2015.
This First Folio is on display at the museum next to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. I figured this would be a good one for the start of February – one of the world’s most famous love stories for the month with Valentine’s Day.
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Staircase at Harvard House, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.
Another in a seemingly endless series of wooden staircase photos. 🙂 (I can’t help it – I love them!)
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Tiles in Rochester Cathedral. Photo May 2015.
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Vaulting in Norwich Cathedral. Photo May 2015.
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Corridor in the keep of Rochester Castle. Photo May 2015.
Upcoming Books, Exhibitions, and Events for January 2025
Happy New Year everyone!
This month’s round-up is kind of light, but I do have a few things to draw your attention to:
Books
Nicola Clark’s The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens (US title) will be out next week in the US, after it was released last spring in the UK.
And Nathen Amin’s The Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor, which came out last summer in the UK, will be released in hardcover in the US on January 20 (it was already available on Kindle).
Events
Peterborough Cathedral‘s annual Katharine of Aragon Festival will be held from January 22nd to 29th this year.
One of these years I will finally get to the festival! (At least I was finally able to visit the cathedral back in 2015)
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Path along the Mere at Framlingham Castle. Photo May 2015.
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South aisle of Peterborough Cathedral. Photo May 2015.
This is a longer version of the Picture of the Week #366 – you can just see the Scottish Royal Banner way down at the end, across from the former burial place of Mary Queen of Scots.
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More embroideries from the Marian Hangings at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. Photo May 2015.
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Medieval Bailey Gate of Castle Acre. Photo May 2015.
This is the reverse view of Picture of the Week #476
Upcoming Books, Exhibitions, and Events for December 2024
Here we are… the end of the year! I know it’s cliche to say that time seems to be going by faster and faster the older you get, but I really seem to be feeling it this year. (I think the ridiculous amount of work I was doing in the lead up to the April 8 total solar eclipse was part of that…)
I don’t have a lot of book info for December and I have a feeling that it’s going to get a little more difficult for me to find new works to post about for a while since I’ve decided to leave Twitter. But I’m starting to find most of the history people I followed there on other platforms, so hopefully I’ll be able to catch exciting new Tudor works coming in 2025!
Everything I have for this month are US releases of books previously released in the UK:
First is Lady Anne Bacon: A woman of learning at the Tudor court by Deborah Spring, which was released earlier in the fall in the UK and is out now in the US:
And The Illustrated Tudor Dictionary by Simon Sandys-Winsch came out at the end of October in the UK and will be out at the end of 2024 in the US.
That’s it for this month!
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Buildings at Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote, near Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.
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Hampton Court Kitchens. Photo May 2015.
With the approach of Thanksgiving here in the US, I have cooking on the brain, so here’s yet another picture from the Hampton Court Palace kitchens!
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Engraved portrait of Elizabeth I from “Pacata Hibernia”. Photo April 2016.
Since today is the 466th anniversary of the death of Mary I and therefore also the anniversary of Elizabeth I becoming Queen, I thought I would dig out another image from the Shakespeare in Print and Performance exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center at my university. One of these days I’ll finish editing all of my images from the exhibit and do a full write-up of it (only 8+ years too late…)
