Hopefully this posts when it is supposed to since I wrote and scheduled it ahead of time since I’m actually at McDonald Observatory when this goes up and I’m going to be assisting with observing, so I’m probably on a very weird sleep schedule right now…
Books
First up is a book from June that I missed – Heroines of the Tudor World by Sharon Bennett Connolly that came out on June 15 in the UK and will be out in September in the US:
And in new releases in July –
First up is James Taffe’s Serving the Tudors, which will be out on Kindle in both the UK and US on July 1.
Next is Nathen Amin’s latest (which I’m really looking forward to!), The Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor, which will be released on July 15 in the UK and in November in the US.
And there are three Tudor-related releases on July 30 in the UK that will be out in the fall in the US:
The Female Tudor Scholar and Writer: The Life and Times of Margaret More Roper by Aimee Fleming:
Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles by Adam Pennington
And finally, Tudor Executions: From Nobility to the Block by Helene Harrison
Continuing Exhibits
The National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens opened on June 20 and runs through September 8. Click through for more information on the many related events the gallery will be hosting!
About the exhibition:
Tudor paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger and contemporary photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto meet in the National Portrait Gallery’s first exhibition of historic portraiture since reopening, presenting a study of the lives and afterlives of the six women who married Henry VIII.
Six Lives will chronicle the representation of Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr throughout history and popular culture in the centuries since they lived. As a frequent source of fascination, the stories of the six women has repeatedly inspired writers and artists of all kinds to attempt to uncover the ‘truth’ of their lives: their characters, their appearance and their relationships. From historic paintings, drawings and ephemera, to contemporary photography, costume and film, the exhibition draws upon a wealth of factual and fictional materials to present the life, legacy and portrayal of six women who forever changed the landscape of English history.
