* Henry VIII to be staged this season at the Globe (from the BBC). Let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself with this production! They will also have two new productions this year: one a play about Anne Boleyn and another that will be the first play performed at the Globe from a woman playwright (from The Guardian).
* History Today has an article by Linda Porter – Katherine Parr: An Ideal Stepmother. Porter has a new biography on Parr due out in March in the UK (you can sign up to be notified for the US release at the link below).
* There are several upcoming Tudor Events at Hampton Court Palace that look interesting. As always, if anyone gets a chance to go to any of these, I’d love to hear about it!
* A new book on the death of Amy Robsart Dudley is out in the UK (article from The Times Online). UK Amazon link below (and another US “sign up to be notified”)
Lambeth Palace Library site is currently featuring a magnificent book that belonged to Dudley
http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/robertdudley
Linda Porter is coming to Gainsborough Old Hall on July 8th -Katherine lived there with her first husband.
The book on the ill-fated Amy Dudley sounds too good to miss.