Hey, look – a Sunday Short Takes! It’s not like there has been a lack of Tudor news lately, but I have been lacking in time to sit down a write up a post about them. A lot of the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Shakespeare
Long overdue! Some of these date back over a month, but in my defense, most of February was a blur so it feels like we just went from January straight to March. * The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries to open … Continue reading
Time for another round-up! Finally got a few stories to post. * Archaeology Week at the Mary Rose Museum – During the Festival of Archaeology 2017 the Mary Rose Museum welcome visitors to hear from archaeologists involved in the world’s … Continue reading
Welcome to the first round-up of 2017! I admit that I had a couple of things to post last week but I totally and completely forgot about it until about 9:00 p.m. on Sunday. So, here are a couple of … Continue reading
How about a round-up of some now-very-outdated-news? 🙂 I’ve skipped the “Marlowe as Shakespeare Co-author” news stories since you couldn’t swing a dead poet without hitting those, so here are a few other things from the past month and a … Continue reading
Good grief, I didn’t expect a month to go by before I got a chance to do one of these again… To say that things have been busy lately would be a wild understatement. The good news is that I’ve … Continue reading
New books One book I missed from last month is Wendy J. Dunn’s Falling Pomegranate Seeds, a novel about Katherine of Aragon: And out at the end of this month in the UK is Anne Boleyn in London by Lissa … Continue reading
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
New Books First up is J. Stephan Edwards with The Lady Jane Grey’s Prayer Book: British Library Harley Manuscript 2342, Fully Illustrated and Transcribed which will be released July 15. Pre-orders are available directly through the publisher. More information is … Continue reading
A number of big stories lit up my news alerts this week so I guess I couldn’t procrastinate my way though another Sunday without doing a wrap-up! And I’m actually healthy again, which helps a lot. 🙂 This was probably … Continue reading
There were a bunch of Shakespeare events last weekend for the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death (and 452nd anniversary of his birth), and here are a few related articles: * William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52 … Continue reading
A terse round-up this week since I think a cold virus has finally managed to catch me… I’m really surprised it took this long given the exhaustion I’ve had over the past 8 months and the fact that I interact … Continue reading
There were a couple of stories that really lit up my alerts this week, so I chose a couple of representative links. And I just realized that both of these graves were places I visited last year, so I’ve added … Continue reading
Sunday Short Takes Mega Edition! This is what happens when I actually have time to do things. (I took Spring Break off at work – although the fact that I was able to mostly use comp time accrued in the … Continue reading
The Sunday Short Takes have accidentally become a monthly thing of late, but that’s just the way it has worked out between lack of enough stories on a weekly basis and my recent work schedule. But I actually had a … Continue reading
Books Ruth Goodman’s How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life was released in early November 2015 in the UK and will be out February 15 in the US: And Amy Licence’s Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: … Continue reading
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
Happy New Year! I’ll have a proper post later with a wrap-up of last year and some things I want to accomplish in 2016 but for now – on to the round-up for January! Books I’ll start out with a … 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
Wow, this month’s round-up really managed to sneak up on me! Where did November go?? Books All of this month’s books have already been released in the UK and are now coming out in the US or books that I … Continue reading
