Here it is, finally! Yes, I know I said I’d have it posted yesterday but anyone who knows me should have automatically translated this into “oh, it will be up maybe by the end of next week…”.
Featured website: http://hrp.org.uk/
Music from Magnatune.com by the groups La Primavera and the Dufay Collective
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Hello all! I’m hoping to finally get the January podcast recorded tonight, so I’ll get it posted tomorrow. Sorry for the delay!
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No April Fools joke… I meant to post this while back but just got around to it today. More information on the show is up at the Showtime website: http://www.sho.com/site/tudors/
Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon (my picture is above, from my trip there in 1998) is trying to raise money for some much needed repairs. You can donate or join the Friends of Shakespeare’s Church at their website.
While I guess this isn’t strictly Tudor related (not like that has stopped me before), I was pleased to see that the first woman has been selected to the ranks of the Yeoman Warders at the Tower of London. Actually, I guess there is a Tudor connection, since they were started by Henry VII…
From the Times Online:
A woman has been appointed to the ranks of the Tower of London
For those of you in the US, PBS will replay the Anne-Marie Duff “The Virgin Queen” this Sunday and next. As the saying goes, check your local listings!
Hello all! I hope everyone is having a good 2007 so far!
I meant to put something up on the news blog about the new design for the front page of TudorHistory.org, but bad weather, a satellite internet connection at home and getting caught up at work have all conspired against it.
So, yes, I’ve changed the front page again. I think the “window” design has only been up for two years (at the most), but I wanted something with smaller graphics and more text that *should* help people find what they are looking for a bit easier. At least, that’s the plan. Plus, this design matches the rest of the site a bit better. I might be tweaking the designs of the blogs a bit too, when I get a chance. Apologies to those who liked the old design better. At some point I’m going to put together a little gallery of all the old designs, since I have the files for most of the revisions from the old tudor.simplenet.com all the way through today.
Also, I’m going to start turning on comments for posts here at the news blog. I really didn’t have any reason to not have comments before, I just didn’t think about it. So from now on all my blogs will have comments turned on by default. I will have comment moderation turned on though, mostly to keep comment spam out.
Via Cronaca
A rare Henry VIII medal, military decorations and a Royal Marines helmet, belt and spurs proved to be the star attractions in Thomson, Roddick & Medcalf
The final podcast for 2006 is now up!
The letter that I mentioned back in October sold for $156,000 (about
For those of you with access to BBC2:
A FEAST of a boar’s head, peacock complete with flaming beak and a salad in the design of the family coat of arms may not sound like a typical family Christmas lunch but back in Tudor days it was all part of the traditional festive atmosphere for the lords and ladies of the time, all eaten in full costume whilst musicians provided in-house entertainment.
This scene was recreated in the stately setting of Haddon Hall to bring the magic of a Tudor banqueting hall to life for a BBC2 documentary to be shown over Christmas.A Tudor Feast at Christmas was filmed earlier this year as a follow up to the Tales from the Green Valley and will be shown at 9pm on Friday December 22.
Here it is, the final podcast for 2006!
Featured website: Elizabethancostume.net
The two poems that I read can be found in the episode transcript.
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From the BBC:
A pair of late 15th Century altar paintings are going on display in London after a 450-year absence.
The panels, thought to have furnished a chapel at Westminster Abbey, passed intact through the upheavals of the Reformation.
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They are now on display at the Museum of London.They are thought to have been removed from Westminster Abbey either in 1536, when it was stripped of its shrines and images, in 1540, when it briefly converted into a cathedral, or in around 1547 during the strict Protestantism of Edward VI.
24 Hour Museum also has an article: Museum of London Aquires Rare Medieval Altar Panels
Both articles have pictures of the panels.
You can now see a trailer and brochure for next years “The Tudors” series at the PeaceArch Entertainment website here.
Sort of in line with my initial impressions, it looks like it is going to be a mix of true history and “sexy” history, but it looks entertaining!
From the 24 Hour Museum, via Cronaca:
The Victoria and Albert Museum has announced that it will no longer charge academics and scholars for using its digital images
Repost – Apparently the last two and a half minutes got cut off the file I originally posted. I don’t know what happened, but the file up now is complete!
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The November 2006 episode of the podcast is now up!
BTW, sorry things have been kind of quiet on this blog lately… I haven’t found a whole lot of articles that caught my attention and I’ve been pretty busy (after recovering from that stupid head cold).
Better late than never! I apologize if the sound isn’t as good in this recording and if you hear extra stray noises. You might even hear a cat meowing faintly in the background at one point since the pets were not very happy about being locked out of the room while I was recording.
Featured website: Westminster Abbey
History podcasts that I mentioned:
Matt’s Today in History
History According to Bob
Baseball History Podcast
Archaeology Channel Podcast
The Biography Podcast
British History 101
The Renaissance Festival Podcast
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Back in January I posted some links to articles of a possible period portrait of Lady Jane Grey. Here’s a follow-up from The Guardian:
The National Portrait Gallery has bought a painting believed to be of Lady Jane Grey – until now the only English monarch since Henry VII thought to lack a contemporary or near-contemporary portrait.
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Dendrochronology, by which a piece of wood can be accurately dated, has established that the panel on which it is painted was cut down around 1593. So the picture was painted around 50 years after Lady Jane’s execution.
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Tarnya Cooper, of the National Portrait Gallery, believes it is a copy of a lost original, possibly created in Lady Jane’s lifetime.
