Bedroom at the Shakespeare Birthplace. Photo May 2015 I think this is the bedroom that is traditionally said to be where Shakespeare was born. I chose this in honor of starting the Shakespeare 2020 Project where I’m joining William Shakespeare’s … Continue reading
Category Archives: Shakespeare
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
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How about a round-up of some now-very-outdated-news?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
