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Update on Jane Miniature

This is the image in question in the article that I linked to last night. There was an article in the Telegraph today that included the picture. When I first read the description in the article, this is the one that I was picturing, so I was delighted to see that was indeed it. The scan that I put in above came from a catalog of an exhibition called “Artists of the Tudor Court – The Portrait Miniature Rediscovered” by Roy Strong. I don’t have the book with me right now, but I’ll check it tonight if I get a chance and post the information that the book has on the miniature.

Here’s the article from the Telegraph

Another possible portrait of Lady Jane Grey

From The Independent:

Brooch identifies portrait as Lady Jane Grey, the girl who reigned for nine days

By Louise Jury, Arts Correspondent
Published: 05 March 2007

For decades, the female sitter in this 16th-century miniature painting remained unidentified. But after investigating the woman’s jewellery, the historian David Starkey is now convinced this is the only known portrait of Lady Jane Grey painted during her lifetime to have survived.

Full article

I’ll update if I find some links to more articles or images

Update: (link died… so I’ve removed it)

Plus, I forgot to mention it last week, but Alison Weir’s first novel, Innocent Traitor, came out in the US last week. Here are links to Amazon.com and Amazon.uk for the book:


Special Edition “A Man For All Seasons” (1966) DVD

This week in the US a special edition of the Academy Award-winning “A Man for All Seasons” movie from 1966 was released on DVD. The UK version was released last week. The links below goes to my Amazon affiliate stores. The US is on the left and the UK is on the right. If you order, be sure to get the correct one if you don’t have a region-free DVD player.

TudorCast #8 – January 2007

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

Episode transcript

Direct mp3 download

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January episode coming soon!

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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First Female Beefeater

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

Catching up

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.