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“Time Team” to Dig Up Royal Lawns

The crew from Time Time has gotten permission to dig at Holyrood House, WIndsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. Several news sources had articles on the digs, which were taking place this weekend.

From The Sunday Times – History digs into royal lawns

From The Guardian – TV ‘diggers’ given access to royal premises

Another from The Guardian – Time Team digging for royal secrets

From The Scotsman – Queen orders TV’s Time Team to search for palace’s secrets

New Novel about Katherine Parr

Carolly Erickson, who has written several Tudor non-fiction books, has written a novel about Katherine Parr called The Last Wife of Henry VIII. It is available for pre-order in the US (left) and the UK (right) and will be published in October:



Next Podcast will be a Two-fer!

Hello all!

I’m not going to be able to get a podcast finished by the end of August, so I’m going to do both August and September together in one. Look for it in about 3-4 weeks!

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New Book on Katherine Swynford

I’m sure some significant fraction of Tudor History fans have read about Katherine Swynford, mistress and third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. She was the mother of the Beaufort children, whose decendents include Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII and the origin of his claim to the throne. Probably most people are familiar with Katherine through the 1950s novel Katherine by Anya Seton, so it is nice to see a non-fiction book on her. There have been some others in the past (that managed to sneak by me!), but below are links at Amazon.uk and Amazon.com to the newest: Katherine Swynford: The History of a Medieval Mistress
by Jeannette Lucraft (please note that Amazon has Ms. Lucraft’s name spelled incorrectly)


Back from vacation, updates coming soon

Hello all! I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m back and I’m still catching up on email and news articles. I should have some news up tomorrow or the day after. And for those of you expecting email replies, they will be coming by the end of the week, I promise!

On vacation July 30 to August 20

I’ll be on vacation for the next three weeks. I’ll have access to the internet on and off so I’ll probably be able to post any interesting news articles that show up, but there might a delay.

I’m hoping to write and and post pictures over on my personal blog, if anyone is interested.

TudorCast #3 – July 2006

Show notes:

Additional recommendation on last month’s featured website:
Beginner’s Latin tutorial from the UK National archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners/

Website of the month: Castles of Wales http://www.castlewales.com

Music by La Primavera

Episode transcript

Direct mp3 download

Update: In 2009, in an interesting and convincing article in The New Criterion by Leanda de Lisle, it is argued that the Spinola account of Jane Grey’s appearance is a fake. So, the “text” portion of this podcast probably not an authentic primary source text.

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First Civil Partnership in Birmingham, England – Tudor Themed!

From the article:

James and Brynn Tudor have made history by becoming Birmingham’s first gay couple to tie the knot and form a civil partnership.
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As soon as we first heard that the government was considering the legislation, so many months ago, we began making plans. I myself already had an idea of how I wished our ceremony to look and after talking it through with Brynn it was decided that we would have a Henry VIII and his six wives theme.

Full article from the BBC

Be sure to check out the cake too!

Spam email issues

Hopefully nobody who reads this site or blog will be getting any of these, but I just wanted to let everyone know that a spammer is spoofing my domain name with made-up names before the @tudorhistory.org part. The only email addresses that I send from are tudorhistory@tudorhistory.org or lara@tudorhistory.org. Anything else is not legit.

Now to go continue deleting the hundreds of spam blocker replies that are currently flooding my email…

Update: It looks like it has tapered off, for now. Whew… 100+ emails a minute is just a little more than I’m used to. 🙂

Scarlett Johansson to play Mary Boleyn

This has been floating around as a rumor for a while, but Variety is reporting today (and many other news sources are quoting them) that Scarlett Johansson has indeed been cast to play Mary Boleyn alongside Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn and Eric Bana as Henry VIII.

Here are a few of the news articles:

Johansson in Tudor love triangle – The Guardian

Johansson Joins The Other Boleyn Girl – Comingsoon.net

Scarlett Johansson is The Other Boleyn Girl – Movieweb

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“Elizabeth I” nominated for 13 Emmys

From The Guardian:

Channel 4’s Elizabeth I, starring Helen Mirren as the virgin queen, has scooped 13 nominations at this year’s prestigious Primetime Emmys, in what could be a bumper year for UK productions.

Full article (including a link to all the nominations)

At the risk of revealing what a nerd I am, it was interesting to see Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson nominated in the same category. When Gillian Anderson won her Emmy for her role as Scully in the X-Files, Helen Mirren presented it to her. I recall Gillian remarking about how honored she was being presented the award from Helen Mirren, whom she admires. Now they are both nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Mini Series!

Holbein fails to sell at Sotheby’s auction

Just a follow-up on a post from a few month ago:

Holbein’s 1542 medallion-style “Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger,” son of Henry VIII’s treasurer, was offered by London dealer Christopher Gibbs for as much as 3 million pounds. It drew no bids.

Full article

(original links have expired and have been removed)