More entries for the “OMG I want to win the lottery and buy this place!” wishlist! First up is Otley Hall in Suffolk, which was mostly built in the 16th century. You can see the listing at Savills here. And … Continue reading
Category Archives: General History
I had no intention of waiting a whole month into the new year to finally post a Sunday Short Takes, but that’s just kind of how things worked out! So here’s a round-up of Tudor history-related news that caught my … Continue reading
Short round-up this week! * Duke of Gloucester launches £500,000 Fotheringhay Church appeal – The Duke visited the church on Wednesday, September 16, to kick-start the appeal to raise the cash to repair the roof and windows, as well as … Continue reading
Of course, the big story this week was the newest round of results and discoveries from the continued testing of the skeleton of Richard III. I’ll recap all of that in a separate post since there is a lot of … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Only a few things to post about this week, and only one of them is strictly Tudor history related! First, I wanted to post something about this event now, instead of waiting for my monthly round-up, since it sounds like … Continue reading
The Telegraph has posted its obituary for Eric Ives: * Professor Eric Ives – Professor Eric Ives, who has died aged 81, was the author of the definitive biography of Anne Boleyn and a much-loved figure at the University of … Continue reading
I can’t believe that I’m still catching up on things from the summer! Over on my personal blog I just posted about the trip I took for work out to McDonald Observatory in July and here is my write-up of … Continue reading
Short round-up this week. I’m sure there were some things that got past me during the ridiculously busy week I just had, but here are a couple of things I managed to catch: * Cromwell and royal letters to stay … Continue reading
* Britain’s moral mythology: The 800-year-old ‘medieval encyclopaedia’ written by monks and fit for King Henry VIII goes on display * Pembrokeshire Tudor trader’s house to open at St Fagans Museum * Sixteenth-Century Girl’s love for Tudor Suffolk – Having … Continue reading
Just a couple of books to mention this time – Claire Ridgway of The Anne Boleyn Files has released her second book, The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown. US and UK Amazon Kindle editions linked below: And probably one … Continue reading
Updates to previous books that are already out in the UK – Suzannah Lipscomb‘s A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England will be out in hardback in the US on April 24th. It’s already available on Kindle in the US (and … Continue reading
The Vatican Secret Archives exhibition that I have mentioned a few times previously is now open so there were several articles about some of the treasures that are now on display. Here are some: * The Vatican’s Secret Archive: selected … Continue reading
* Claire Ridgway of The Anne Boleyn Files has published The Anne Boleyn Collection which includes the most popular articles from the site. I downloaded the US Kindle version for my iPad and the UK Kindle edition is available along … Continue reading
* The BBC Radio 4 program Woman’s Hour talked about Margaret Tudor in the past week’s episode. You can listen to it here. * All Singing, All Dancing – “Sexually explicit jigs were a major part of the attraction of … Continue reading
* Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen – Q&A with author Dr John Edwards at the BBC History Magazine book club * Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings – Series on BBC Four * Revealed: The handwritten prayer book love … Continue reading
* The Middle Ages in colour – A lovely BBC video in honor of the opening of the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts exhibition that I blogged about previously * FiveBooks Interviews > Thomas Penn on Henry VII – Another great … Continue reading
Since I didn’t do a round-up last week, I didn’t get around to posting about the discovery of Sir Francis Drake’s final fleet and the possible resting place of Drake himself. Here are a few of the many news stories … Continue reading
Here’s the round-up of some of the upcoming books and exhibitions for late October through November. Again, there are probably things I’ve missed but the Tudors are just too popular! Books * I have conflicting information on a new work … Continue reading
The British Library’s next major exhibition Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination opens November 11, 2011 and runs through March 13, 2012. I was originally planning to just mention this in my next round-up of upcoming books and exhibitions, but … Continue reading
