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Sunday Short Takes

Another busy week!

The big story this week is the opening of the new museum for the Mary Rose. I saved a bunch of articles over the week, so linked below are the ones that I thought had the most interesting information and/or pictures (including video).

* Inside the new Mary Rose museum – From “The Telegraph”

* Inside the new Mary Rose museum – From Channel 4 (be sure to catch the video further down the page of Suzannah Lipscomb discussing “Tudor mania”)

* Tributes paid to Mary Rose 470 years after she sank as new

Upcoming Exhibitions and Events for June 2013

Amazingly, I don’t have any books on the spreadsheet for this month. That really only means that there are books coming out in June that I’ve missed since I know a month can’t go by without *something* related to Tudor history being published. 😉

Events

* The next Sudeley Castle Tudor Fun Day will be on June 23. Check their website for more information.

* The play Fallen in Love: The Secret Heart of Anne Boleyn, will be performed at the Tower of London and Gippeswyk Hall, Ipswich for several more performances in June. More information and links for tickets are available at their website.

New exhibitions

* Shakespeare and London, an exhibition by the London Metropolitan Archives, opened this past week and will run through September 26, 2013. One of the highlights of the exhibition is a 1613 deed signed by Shakespeare and is one of only six known examples of his signature. If you want to be sure to see that item, please check the website since it is only on display for some of the dates the exhibition runs.

* The National Museum of Scotland will be opening an exhibition on Mary Queen of Scots on June 28 that will run through November 17. (I’m amused that it opens on Henry VIII’s birthday and closes on Elizabeth I’s accession day.)

Continuing exhibitions

The Victoria & Albert Museum‘s exhibition Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts, and the Russian Tsars is still on and runs through July 14, 2013.

The exhibition In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion opened in May and runs through October 6. More information is available at the Royal Collection website, which also includes an online gallery of exhibition highlights and a TEDx talk by the exhibition curator.

Sunday Short Takes

One of the big stories from last week were the revelations from the first academic paper to published from the dig that uncovered the grave of Richard III. The University of Leicester made an arrangement with the publisher to give free access to the paper, given the popular interest in the topic. You can download the paper from Antiquity‘s website.

Some press articles are linked below:

* Richard III buried in ‘hastily dug untidy grave’

* New Study Finds That King Richard III Was Buried in a Hurry

* The final moments of Richard IIIs burial revealed: King was squashed into tiny grave with his hands still tied by gravediggers ‘in a hurry’

As you can see up at the top of the post, the June issue of BBC History Magazine features a cover article by Chris Skidmore on the path to and the battle at Bosworth Field, the basis of his new book.

Last week the first two programs of the BBC2’s “Tudor Court Season” aired in the UK. For those outside the UK, you can see them on YouTube (for now – I wouldn’t be surprised if they get pulled down) here:

* The Last Days of Anne Boleyn

* Henry VIII’s Enforcer: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell

As we get close to the opening of the new Mary Rose Museum at the end of the week, a new app has launched (for iPhone and Android) with information on artifacts, upcoming events, and more to help you plan a visit.

And finally…

I keep forgetting to post about the upcoming series The White Queen about the women of the Wars of the Roses, based on Philippa Gregory’s novel. It will air on BBC One in the UK and on Starz in the US this summer. Embedded below is one of the trailers.

[Edited March 2016 – the original video linked here as been removed]

Hello all!

No, this isn’t a big announcement that I’m bringing the podcast back (but it’s also not an announcement that I’m *not* bringing it back, for what it’s worth), I just wanted to update this blog since it has been three years since the last post. I still don’t know if I’ll get back into doing the podcast, but I figured I’d at least post something there to let people know that I’m still thinking about it. Some of the undergrads that I work with at my university have started podcasting and one of them (who knows that I used to do this one) has been poking at me to get it going again. We’ll see. 🙂

[Comments on this post are now closed because they have all of a sudden attracted a ton of spam!]

Sunday Short Takes

Not nearly as many things this week, which is good because I’ve already spent too much time today checking links, adding graphics and social links to, and re-organizing the Links Directory section (which is hopefully in a more useful state now than when I started!)

* Historic glass windows go on display in Nonsuch Mansion

* Wolfson History Prizes (for books published in 2012) – Congrats to Susan Brigden for winning for her book Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest!

* Penry Williams obituary – His book Life in Tudor England was one of the first Tudor history books I ever bought

* A History of Classical Music – A series of posts with embedded Spotify playlists covering the history of classical music, starting with Medieval and Renaissance music. The link goes to the introductory post and they have up through late Renaissance right now. (Apologies to whomever I saw this link from – it was either on Twitter or a blog and I can’t remember now who it was. Sorry!)

Sunday Short Takes


Elizabeth and the Three Goddesses. Image:NPG

The big news in the Tudor/Elizabethan art realm this past week was the announcement that the National Portrait Gallery has purchased a portrait of Elizabeth I from a house sale and that it would be included in the gallery’s forthcoming exhibition Elizabeth I & Her People (opening in October).

Here are a few of the articles about the painting from last week:

* Elizabeth I portrait found in house clearance sale – BBC article with a video discussing the painting with the NPG’s Tarnya Cooper

* Elizabeth I portrait to be displayed after being hidden for centuries – From The Telegraph

* National Portrait Gallery buys postcard-sized portrait of Elizabeth I – From The Guardian

Several stories related to Mary Queen of Scots came along last week:

* Mary, Queen of Scots death warrant to go on show – It will be part of an exhibition that I’ll post more about in an upcoming round-up

* Mary, Queen of Scots statue call – If Mary gets a statue, I hope this prompts Pembroke to grant the request for one for Henry VII.

* The CW Picks Up

Sunday Short Takes

Lots of things this week!

* Historic milestone for 500-year-old wreck of Mary Rose warship – Scientists have stopped spraying the 500-year-old wreck of the Mary Rose with a protective wax for the first time in nearly two decades, an historic milestone in the conservation of Henry VIII’s Tudor warship.

* My poignant journey in search of the martyrs – Article by Nancy Bilyeau for the Catholic Herald on her research for The Crown and The Chalice

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Picture of the Week #226

Stained glass window of Katherine Parr with Henry VIII (right) and Thomas Seymour (left), her third and fourth husbands. Photo May 1998.

I can’t believe it is just a few weeks from the 15th anniversary of my first trip to the UK!

Upcoming books, exhibitions, and events for May 2013

How can it already be May?

Books

From last month – In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion was released last month in the UK and will be released on May 15 in the US. More about the related exhibition below. And John Guy’s Children of Henry VIII has been moved up in the US and is now due out on May 8 (and actually appears to already been in stock).

The Tudor Rose: Princess Mary Rose, Henry VIII’s Sister by Jennifer Kewley Draskau is due out May 1 in the UK and September 1 in the US:

Anna Whitelock’s Elizabeth’s Bedfellows is due May 23 in the UK. US publication information is unavailable at this time, but I’ll update when I hear more.

And the same with Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors from Chris Skidmore. I’m really looking forward to this one, so it’s a good thing I have a review copy coming. 😀

And finally for the books this month, Elizabeth I is finally getting a biography in the Yale English Monarchs series! It will be authored by Simon Adams and is simply titled Elizabeth I: A Biography. It is due out May 28 in both the US and UK.

Exhibitions

As mentioned above with the book news above, the exhibition In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion debuts this month in the The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. It opens May 10 and runs through October 6. More information is available at the Royal Collection website, which also includes an online gallery of exhibition highlights and a TEDx talk by the exhibition curator.

Events

* The next Sudeley Castle Tudor Fun Day will be on May 19. Check out the website for more information!

* Marilyn emailed to say that Alison Weir would be speaking at Gainsborough Old Hall on May 11. I went to the website and saw that Ms. Weir had a whole bunch of events scheduled the year, so if you’re interested in seeing her speak check the whole calendar of events!

* Suzannah Lipscomb posted on her blog that she participated in a new BBC2 program on the last days of Anne Boleyn that is scheduled to air in mid-May.

And finally…

I think I’m the last person in the Tudor blog-o-sphere to post about the play Fallen in Love: The Secret Heart of Anne Boleyn, which I have heard excellent things about. The play will be performed at the Tower of London and Gippeswyk Hall, Ipswich at various dates in May and June. More information and links for tickets are available at their website.

Sunday Short Takes

News still seems to be slow right now, but I had a few things to post this week.

* Bess of Hardwick’s Letters – The Complete Correspondence c.1550-1608 – I think this site just came online this past week and is a great resource! In addition to the text of the letters (which can also be downloaded in PDF form), many entries have images of the originals. There is also a background section with essays, tutorials for reading early modern handwriting, podcasts and more.

* Richard III church to be revealed in excavation – The University of Leicester archaeologists plan to return to the site this summer and to uncover more of the church where Richard III was buried.

* BBC History Magazine’s History Weekend – This isn’t until October, but I wanted to go ahead and post about it now before I normally would (late September for the October books and events post) in case it sells out early. Not surprisingly they have put together a great line-up of speakers on many topics (Tudor era included!).

Picture of the Week #224

Carvings in the Beauchamp Tower of the Tower of London. Photo June 2000.

If I remember correctly, the oak in the middle is thought to have been carved by Robert Dudley while he and some of his family members were imprisoned in the Tower after the plot to put Jane Grey on the throne.

The Creation of Anne Boleyn – Review by Kyra Cornelius Kramer

I only had a couple of stories lined up for this week’s Sunday Short Takes, so I decided to save them for next week and post an excerpt of Kyra Cornelius Kramer’s review of Susan Bordo’s The Creation of Anne Boleyn instead. I have a copy on the way for my own review at some point down the road. (And in the interest of full disclosure I’ll add that I was interviewed by Dr. Bordo for the book.)

Dr. Susan Bordo

Picture of the Week #223

Closer view of the front entrance to the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Photo May 2000.

One last photo of Holyrood (I don’t have many since I only got to see it from a distance) in honor of the 501st birthday of James V, who continued his father’s work on the Palace.