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An Elizabethan Day Out

Folks in England in July will have a chance to experience Elizabethan life in Cornwall:

Experience Elizabethan life with the Newman family.

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Update on “My Ladye Nevells Booke”

To follow up on a post I made back in February, the British Library has now succeeded in acquiring My Ladye Nevells Booke, one of the finest Tudor music manuscripts.

Press release from the British Library

And more about the manuscript.

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Headline History, a history education website in the UK, occasionally has a “hot seat” where students can chat with a historical figure. In June, the featured person will be William Shakespeare. You can find out more on their website: http://www.headlinehistory.co.uk/

Bothwell descendant fights for reputation

From The Herald

A descendant of James Bothwell, who was famed for raping and abducting Mary Queen of Scots and murdering her husband, is attempting to restore his reputation.
Sir Alastair Buchan-Hepburn is undergoing DNA testing to establish that remains held in Denmark are those of the fourth earl of Bothwell, to whom he is related. He hopes to bring his ancestor’s remains back to Scotland for a Christian burial.

Full article

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March BBC History Magazine

The cover story on the March issue of BBC History Magazine is How Bloody Was Mary? by David Loades author of Mary Tudor: A Life. I haven’t had a chance to read the article yet, but it looks interesting!

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Media release from the Tamar Protection Society in Cornwall, England on their nearly

My Ladye Nevells Booke – British Library Fundraising campaign

The British Library is fundraising to secure the unique 16th-century music manuscript ‘My Ladye Nevells Booke’ for the nation. It is one of the finest Tudor music manuscripts in existence and contains 42 pieces for keyboard by William Byrd, the greatest English composer of his age.

Click for images and information on how you can donate

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A historic day at Catherine of Aragon service

A follow up to the post from Jan. 25, from Peterborough Today:

A UNIQUE aspect marked this year’s Katharine of Aragon commemorative service at Peterborough Cathedral.

For the first time since the Reformation, a Catholic Priest was invited to address the congregation at the service.

Full article here

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Statue for Raleigh Birthplace

From the BBC:

A new statue of Elizabethan explorer Sir Walter Raleigh is to be unveiled at his birthplace in Devon.

Raleigh, who was born at Hayes Barton, near East Budleigh, brought back tobacco and potatoes to Britain from the New World, now the United States.

Full article here

Spanish Ambassador to honour Katherine of Aragon

PETERBOROUGH will get its first visit from the Spanish Ambassador on Monday as he pays tribute to one of history’s most famous figures.

Carlos Mirana is due to visit the city for the Katharine of Aragon commemorative service, as this year marks two decades’ of Peterborough’s twinning with Alcala, in Spain, where the first wife of Henry VIII was born.

The former queen is buried in Peterborough Cathedral, making the anniversary of her death an important fixture in the city’s calendar.
A service is due to take place on Monday, to mark the 470th anniversary of her death.

Full article here

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Tudor Papers Bought By Cambridge University

From the BBC:

The treasure trove of family and estate papers from Hengrave Hall, Suffolk – worth almost

Shakespeare and Welsh literary police

I received this about a week ago. I’m not really into the Shakespeare authorship debate, but I know from emails that some of my readers are!

Shakespeare and Welsh literary police

Further ‘Shakespeare portrait is a fake’, (Catriona Davies 28/10/2005) et al., octogenarian Welsh vicar, author and broadcaster, the Rev Aelwyn Roberts of Llandegai, North Wales, has told me there is nothing new about mysteries surrounding Shakespeare. He says that in his whodunnit ‘Operation Woolsack’ (later on ITV as the “Swan of Ogwen” in the early 90s) he used police investigation techniques, not academic textual criticism, to establish who the genuine bard might have been — perhaps even the Welshman, Archbishop John of York, buried at Llandegai church. He tells me that King James I was John’s patron (and perhaps more), and gave him many royal gifts and honours for his ‘services to English literature’ while he was secluded for nine years in Walgrave, Northamptonshire. He says the first ‘Shakespeare’ folio was published precisely when (1623) John left Walgrave for Westminster. But where are John’s writings? There was a mysterious fire, 40 years after John’s death, at Westminster Abbey library, opposite Parliament. Only John’s books and two bundles of handwritten English poems were destroyed — a mediaeval, spin coverup? Aelwyn says he still has a few early proof copies (signed in green by himself) of ‘Operation Woolsack’ and you can email him for one at aelwyn@aelwynroberts.wanadoo.co.uk — £6.50 inc p&p.

Dr P.D. O’Neill