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Upcoming Books and Events for April 2015

Books

A few books are coming out in the US this month that have been previously released in the UK:

The World of Richard III by Kristie Dean was released in the UK in February and is due out April 19 in the US:

And The Rise of Thomas Cromwell: Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534 by Michael Everett was released at the end of March in the UK and will be out at the end of April in the US:

In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn by Sarah Morris and Natalie Grueninger will be released in paperback in the UK in April and in June in the US:

Finally, Debra Bayani’s Jasper Tudor: Godfather of the Tudor Dynasty has been fully revised and re-released:

One that I missed from last month – the Grey Friars Research Team from the University of Leicester are releasing their own work on the dig for and discovery of Richard III. It is out at the end of March in the UK and a week later in the US:

Last but not least – Exploring English Castles: Evocative, Romantic, and Mysterious True Tales of the Kings and Queens of the British Isles by Edd Morris is out April 7 in the US and will be out in July in the UK:

Events

The television production of Wolf Hall will debut in the US on PBS on Sunday April 5 and will run through May 10.

The DVDs of the program are already available in the UK and will be out at the end of April in the US:

Continuing Events

After the successful run of the stage versions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by the Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK, the productions have moved to Broadway in the US and opened March 20, 2015 and will run through July 5, 2015. You can learn more about the Broadway run, including ticket information at wolfhallbroadway.com.

Richard III Reinterment News Round-Up


Photo: BBC/PA

I’m sure anyone who is remotely interested in the Richard III story has already seen most of these stories, images, etc. but just in case, here is a selection of links from the past 10 days or so about the reinterment that I found interesting. Several are image galleries, because as they say, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’!

* Images from an unforgettable week

* Richard III’s tomb unveiled at Leicester Cathedral

* Picture Gallery : King Richard III reinterment service

* Richard III taken to final resting place after 500 years

* Richard III reburial: Leicester welcomes king’s remains

Sunday Short Takes

I’m going to put some of the Richard III stories in a separate post later in the week since I already have several and there will be many, many more as the reinterment week progresses. So here’s the best of the rest!

* Elizabethan tapestry map to be displayed at University of Oxford’s Bodleian library – Map of Worcestershire from 1590s describes mysterious event in the hills near

Picture of the Week #324

The George Inn, Southwark. Photo June 2000.

This version of The George dates from the second half of the 17th century and is London’s only surviving galleried coaching inn. The previous George on the site (which can be seen on old maps) dated to medieval times but was destroyed by fire.

“A Queen of a New Invention” – Q&A with J. Stephan Edwards

I’m so happy to be able to bring you this wonderful Q&A by regular commenter Foose with other regular commenter PhDHistorian about his new book A Queen of a New Invention: Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England’s ‘Nine Days Queen’. My massive thanks go out to both of them for doing this so I can bring it to you all! Amazon US and UK ordering information for the book is at the bottom of this post and additional information on the book is available at the author’s website: Some Grey Matter.

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1. What led you to the decision to buck the scholarly consensus that no verifiable contemporary portrait of Jane Grey survived

Sunday Short Takes

Short round-up this week!

* Priceless Royal coat of arms unearthed in walls of 15th century cottage – The stone Tudor coat of arms may have links to Elizabeth I and Henry VIII but had been used as building material in cottage

* Week of exclusive live programming for burial of King Richard III – Details from Channel 4 on their upcoming coverage of Richard III’s burial in Leicester Cathedral

* Richard III gets a lavish send-off

Sunday Short Takes


Medal of Anne Boleyn, the only known likeness from her lifetime and subject of the biggest Tudor news story of the past few weeks

 

Yes, finally, I’ve gotten around to doing another news round-up! The last few weeks have been insanely busy and therefore insanely tiring, so some things fell by the wayside (blogging, laundry, etc.) But now I’m getting caught up, so here’s a mega news dump.

 

The biggest ‘news’ of the past couple of weeks in the Tudor-sphere was the story about facial recognition software that was used on images of Anne Boleyn, which spawned a bunch of articles such as the two below:

* Possible Anne Boleyn portrait found using facial recognition software

* Portraits of Anne Boleyn may not be her, say experts

But it didn’t take long for those knowledgeable in Anne Boleyn’s portraiture to respond with a bit more level-headed analysis than the hyperbolic headlines. A few examples of those below:

* Anne of the Thousand Faces – by Roland Hui on his Tudor Faces blog.

* Anne Boleyn-ollocks – From Bendor Grosvenor on his Art History News blog.

* Update on Nidd Hall Portrait and 1534 Anne Boleyn Medal – From Claire Ridgway at The Anne Boleyn Files, who actually contacted the project coordinator and surprise! – the press got it all wrong.

 

And here’s a bunch of random, interesting articles that I saved:

* Wolf Hall in The National Archives – Nice compilation of documents from the UK National Archives with examples of real-life documents related to events in episodes of the Wolf Hall series.

* Hampton Court’s lost apartment foundations uncovered – A routine maintenance job at Hampton Court palace has uncovered the lost foundations of the splendid royal apartments of two ill-fated queens, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour.

* Skirret: the forgotten Tudor vegetable – Wolf Hall has unearthed Tudor delights, ignored for centuries the sweet root vegetable has returned to Hampton Court

* Storm washes Armada wreckage on to Sligo beach

* Cambridgeshire church plague graffiti reveals ‘heartbreaking’ find – “Heartbreaking” graffiti uncovered in a Cambridgeshire church has revealed how three sisters from one family died in a plague outbreak in 1515.

* Henry VIII’s evidence to support break with Rome turns up in Cornish library – Book of legal and philosophical advice on king

Upcoming Books and Events for March 2015

I know February is a short month to begin with, but it really seems to have flown by this year!

Books

The one book I missed from last month was Virgin Queen by Catherine Corman:

And now on to the new books!

First up is Elizabeth I and Her Circle by Susan Doran. It’s out in March in the UK and June in the US:

Next is Henry VIII’s Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors (US title: Henry VIII’s Last Love: The Life of Katherine Willoughby) by David Baldwin will be released March 15 in the UK and May 19 in the US. (And if you’ll allow me a small editorial comment here: I’m very happy to see a new work on Katherine Willoughby out, a fascinating woman in her own right, so it frustrates me that the book has to market her as “Henry VIII’s Last Love”. I understand that all things Henry VIII are hot and that’s what will attract attention but she had an extraordinary life that extended well beyond the death of Henry VIII, so I’m hoping that gets just as much focus. Okay mini-editorial over. 🙂 )

And Thomas Cromwell will be getting a new biography, entitled The Rise of Thomas Cromwell: Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534 by Michael Everett at the end of March in the UK and end of April in the US:

And finally – the third installment of Nancy Bilyeau’s Joanna Stafford books, The Tapestry, will be released on March 24 in both the UK and US. Stay tuned for a guest post from Nancy in March in conjunction with the book’s release!

Events

After the successful run of the stage versions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by the Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK, the productions have moved to Broadway in the US and will open March 20, 2015 and will run through July 5, 2015 (assuming they don’t extend the run – and I wouldn’t be surprised if that did indeed happen). You can learn more about the Broadway run, including ticket information at wolfhallbroadway.com.

Picture of the Week #319

St Etheldreda’s Church, Hatfield. Photo May 2000.

St Etheldreda’s Church is adjacent to the Old Palace of Hatfield and was built when the palace was the residence of the Bishops of Ely. Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury and minister to Elizabeth I and James I, is buried in the church.

Picture of the Week #318

Heraldic panel from 1518, Swabia, Germany. The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo August 2006.

This is one of a pair of panels (the other was posted two weeks ago) celebrating the marriage of Barbara von Zimmern and Wilhelm von Weitingen, representing the union of two well-established families of the area.

Upcoming Books and Continuing Exhibitions for February 2015

Books

I don’t think I missed any books last month, and I don’t have any US releases of previous UK publications, so it’s straight in to the new books this month!

A Queen of a New Invention: Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley. England’s ‘Nine Days Queen’ by J. Stephan Edwards is due out in both the US and UK on February 12, the anniversary of Jane’s execution. Followers of the Q&A Blog might know the author better by the name “PhD Historian”, one of the regular commenters there. I’ve also featured links to the work that he has posted on his website Some Grey Matter over the years, which gives you a good idea of the amount of detailed scholarship that has gone into the book.

The book is available via Amazon (links below), but if you would like a signed copy you can also order one directly from the author.

And the other new book this month is The World of Richard III by Kristie Dean. Any readers here who are also on my TudorTalk YahooGroup might recognize this author’s name too! The book is a travel guide to the places associated with Richard III that you can still visit today and it will be out in mid-February in the UK and in April in the US.

Continuing Exhibitions

* One month left! – The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered display at the National Portrait Gallery opened September 12, 2014 and will run through March 1, 2015. I’m so jealous of everyone who has had a chance to see this… I’ll just have to console myself with my copy of the accompanying book.