Big story from a couple of weeks ago! * Elizabeth I Armada portrait saved with help of 8,000 donors – A portrait of Elizabeth I has become public property, after an appeal helped raise £10.3m to buy it. And a … Continue reading
Category Archives: Re-enactments and Re-creations
The big story of the week was the re-opening of The Mary Rose Museum, which now gives visitors a full view of the dried remains of the ship. Here is a selection of stories about the event: * Newly decked … Continue reading
Even though I had a bunch of articles last weekend, I didn’t get around to doing a round-up post. So, here’s an extra big one! Lots of Shakespeare news in the past couple of weeks, which I’m sure is just … Continue reading
This first story really caught my eye and I will be extremely jealous of the people who get to do it! * Westminster Abbey to open Henry V’s Chantry Chapel – Includes details for how to enter the ticket lottery … Continue reading
Hello all… so the Sunday posts have been a little quiet of late! Things have been very crazy for the past month or so, so I’ve been really trying to take the weekends off from *everything* (except laundry!) and just … Continue reading
Welcome to this week’s news round-up! There probably won’t be one next week because I’ll be traveling for work, but I’ll save up any interesting stories that come along and do another round-up on the 19th. * Terror in Elizabethan … Continue reading
I’m going to put some of the Richard III stories in a separate post later in the week since I already have several and there will be many, many more as the reinterment week progresses. So here’s the best of … Continue reading
It should be no surprise that there was a lot of news last week coinciding with the premiere of “Wolf Hall”! I’ve just a made a few selections from a bunch of articles that came across my path. * Adapting … Continue reading
Here’s what caught my eye in the past week or so! * How Thomas Wolsey made Hampton Court fit for a king * Lucy Worsley: the fuss over Prince George was nothing compared to the uproar over Henry VIII’s son … Continue reading
Last one of 2014! * Me, me, me … the Elizabethan earl who kept portrait painters busy for 30 years – If you can tell a person by their collection of paintings, what are we to make of Robert Dudley, … Continue reading
Wax figures of Henry VIII and his wives up for auction. Photo: BBC. Sorry for the lack of news round-ups this month, I’ve been trying to cram too much catch-up stuff into the weekends lately! So here’s several weeks’ worth … Continue reading
The biggest story of the week were further details on the death of Ricard III – * King Richard III’s Final Moments Were Quick & Brutal * King Richard III killed by blows to skull * Richard III died in … Continue reading
We’re back! There were finally enough stories to put together a round-up this week! * The Black Death and Tudor adventurers – The final History Extra podcast of 2013 featured James Evans, author of Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage that Launched … Continue reading
Another relatively short round-up this week! An update on some of the continuing work at the site of Shakespeare’s last house, called New Place, in Stratford-upon-Avon: * Shakespeare’s last house is ‘found’ by archaeologists – Archaeologists have been working on … Continue reading
Just a few stories this week – * Toys and games that killed in Tudor England – More interesting stuff from Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski’s research into coroner’s reports. * Great works: Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VI) … Continue reading
Lots of articles related to the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden on Monday the 9th: * 500 years ago- the bloodiest of battles * 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden – the last time a British king … Continue reading
Leanda de Lisle had a couple of interesting articles out this past week: * Anne Boleyn’s last secret – Why was the queen executed with a sword, rather than an axe? * Don’t always blame the mothers – With the … Continue reading
This week ended up pretty heavy on the audio and video entertainment stuff, although we’ll start out with a print story: * Read the Introduction for the upcoming In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn by Sarah Morris and Natalie Grueninger … Continue reading
Well, here we are finally on the eve of the big announcement from the University of Leicester! Just a reminder, you can get info from their website here: http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/media-centre/richard-iii and this one will be re-launched after the press conference: http://www.le.ac.uk/richardiii/ … Continue reading
The first Sunday Short Takes of 2013! A few stories showed up last week related to the new National Portrait Gallery’s “Hidden: Unseen Paintings Beneath Tudor Portraits” that I mentioned in the January 2013 upcoming books and exhibitions post. * … Continue reading
