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New Tudor Humor submission

Courtesy of Kelly Rogers — Tudor Haikus!

Thanks for the submission Kelly!

New TudorCast episode now posted

The June 2006 episode is now up at the podcast blog. Enjoy!

(the podcast site has been discontinued and all of the posts have been migrated to this blog and are available under the

Tudor Ghost Story Contest 2006!

I’m pleased to announce that Wendy J. Dunn’s Tudor Ghost Story Contest (formerlly at Suite101) is now underway and I’m proud to be hosting it at this site. All the details, including past winners, are available here.

First episode of TudorCast now posted

After taking about three weeks longer to do than I had originally planned, I finally have the first episode of TudorCast posted. Head on over to the TudorCast page to learn more about it!

(the podcast site has been discontinued and all of the posts have been migrated to this blog and are available under the

Introducing… TudorCast!

Yes, I’ve finally been bitten by the podcasting bug! For those of you who don’t know what a podcast is, this Wikipedia article is pretty good at explaining it all. I’m still working on writing up all the instructions for how to subscribe and adding links to the iTunes directory etc., but if you have iTunes and are familiar with podcasts, you can just search the directory for “TudorCast” and it will show up.

Here is the website for the podcast, which has all the show information and direct links to the mp3s, as well as the links for subscribing with a podcast grabber: http://podcast.tudorhistory.org

I only have the introductory episode up so far, but the first full episode is in the works. Stay tuned!

(the podcast site has been discontinued and all of the posts have been migrated to this blog and are available under the “podcast” category)

Slightly off-topic: Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth II!

Celebrating the Queen’s 80th Birthday

The reason I say “slightly” off-topic, instead of just plain off-topic is that Elizabeth II is a descendent of Henry VII. Okay, maybe that’s stretching it, but it was a good opportunity for me to finally put up the big genealogical tree from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II that has been rotting on my thumbdrive forever. I meant to put this up ages ago but it got lost in the shuffle. You can see the file here (120K jpg).

I am hoping that this is the first of many of these I’ll put together in the future. I had always wanted to try my hand at making my own charts in Photoshop (instead of trying to mark them up in HTML) so people could download or print them as references. A lot of books will put the basic one (Henry VII to Elizabeth), but there are other families that might be useful, so maybe I’ll get some of those up too. I also want to redo a couple of the images I have on the site now, which were scanned from books. I am pretty sure there are a couple of errors in the one of the Descent of Henry VIII’s wives from Edward I, so I might redo (and slightly simplify) that one. I also would like I better one of the descent from Henry VII to James VI/I.

For now, back to sorting through Church and nobility titles… I’ve been doing a big update on that section and it is taking for bloody ever!

(original links have expired and have been removed)

Mostly better now

Thanks for everyone’s patience while I’ve been sick over the past few weeks. I’m mostly on the mend now (even managed to work in the garden for a couple of hours today!) and will be back at posting and emailing and working on the site.

A few small updates

Sorry for the lack of anything on this blog for nearly two weeks. We had our annual board meeting at work at the beginning of February and literaly 12 hours after it finished, I woke up sick and have been dealing with that ever since. I’m almost back to 100% now though!

Over the weekend I sorted through some links that I’ve had saved for a while and finally added them to the Links of Interest section. I also did some reading and note taking and now need to get down to the library and photocopy some of Statutes of the Realm…

A few changes to the main page

I’ve made a couple of changes to the main page in my experimentation with Google Ads. I have been hesitant to put advertising on the site, but I would like to be able to have the site pay for itself now. I’ve been getting some money from purchases through the Cafe Press store, but right now it’s only bringing in about a quarter of the total yearly cost.

I’ll try to keep the ads to a minimum and as unobtrusive as possible. I’ll probably be messing around with stuff on and off over the next few weeks, so things may change for day to day!

Tudor Ghost Story Contest 2005 winners

Since 2000, Wendy J. Dunn, author of “Dear Heart, How Like You This?” and former editor of the Tudor England pages at Suite 101 has held a Tudor Ghost Story contest around Halloween. Click above to see this year’s winners!

(original links have expired and have been removed)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Here’s looking forward to a good 2006!

I saw a preview of the “Madness of Henry VIII” while watching the National Geographic channel last night. It looks like it could be fun. With all the programs about Elizabeth and the wives of Henry VIII, it will be interesting to see if Henry himself is the focus of this one, since it’s time for the ol’ man to get a show of his own. Now if someone would take an interest in some of the other Tudors (Henry VII, Elizbeth of York, Mary Rose, Margaret of Scotland, Margaret Beaufort, etc. … I wouldn’t mind some good Wars of the Roses programs either).

If I remember correctly, in the past I’ve put some “plans for the site” here on January 1st, so I guess I should do it again. Of course, a lot of the plans I’ve had in past years still haven’t made it to the web, so maybe my goal should be to just try to do more of what I hoped to do in the past. Seriously though, I’ve been downloading some journal papers over the past few weeks on a variety of topics, but I haven’t had much time to take notes and work on some write-ups for the site. Heck, I didn’t even get my Christmas shopping done until Christmas Eve this year! (Actually, it’s still not completely done, since my boyfriend and I still haven’t gotten gifts for each other yet!) It was a very busy finish to the year in 2005, but I’m not taking a class in the spring so hopefully that will free up a little more time. We shall see!

Have a wonderful New Year everyone!

2006 Calendar up at CafePress store

Well, one version of the calendar that CafePress offers at least… Right now I have the “Calendar Print” version, which is on one 11″ x 17″ sheet. The design is the Tudor Rose with “Tudor England” above and “1485-1603” below and signatures of the Tudor Kings and Queens (including the Six Wies) on either side of the central design. I had a lot of fun putting it together!

I’m still hoping to get the 12-month calendar version out with photos of Tudor-related places on each month, but I’m having a hard time deciding what to put on them. I’ve made four photo montages so far, but I’m not 100% happy with them, so it might just be photos and a short explanation of what place it is and/or the significance to Tudor history or some such…

Oh, I also forgot to mention it, but a week or so ago I added a black t-shirt with the Tudor Rose emblem to the store as well. The only drawback is that the base price for the shirts it pretty high, so once I added my mark-up, it’s pretty expensive. But it’s a pretty sharp looking shirt!