Upcoming Books, Exhibitions, and Events for August 2023

Welcome to August! Can the summer be over now, please? I’m tired of slowly roasting like I’m a rotisserie chicken or something….

Books

We’ve got a few books that were previously released in the UK coming out in the US this month:

First up – Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power about Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots by Leah Redmond Chang we released in May in the UK and will be out in mid-August in the US:

And Carol Ann Lloyd’s The Tudors By the Numbers, which was released last month in the UK, will be out at the end of August in the US:

And in new releases this month, Gareth Russell’s newest book, The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court will be out on August 17 in the UK and at the end of the year in the US (I see a future Christmas present to myself!):

Continuing Exhibitions

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England is now out on the US west coast and opened at the Legion of Honor, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It opened there on June 24 and will close on September 24.

Hever Castle has a new exhibition that debuted when it reopened for the year on February 8 – Catherine & Anne: Queens, Rivals, Mothers. Admission to the exhibition is included with tickets to the castle. There is also a companion book available which can also be purchased from the online shop.

Upcoming Books, Exhibitions, and Events for July 2023

Welcome to the half-way point of 2023! I know I’m always commenting on how fast the year seems to be going by, but it’s particularly noticeable this year – I think because I have two looming deadlines that are approaching and that cannot be moved since laws of physics are involved (for those that don’t know, I’m in astronomy public outreach and we have two solar eclipses coming here in Texas that I need to run events for and I still feel way behind on planning them).

Anyway – here are the new books for July and a few things that I missed last month!

Books

Arthur, Prince of Wales: Henry VIII’s Lost Brother by Gareth Streeter is now out in the US after an earlier release in the UK:

And one that I missed last month that is now out in both the UK and US – The Sweating Sickness Epidemic: Henry VIII’s Great Fear by Stephen Porter (which reinforces my thought that Henry VIII really, really wouldn’t have enjoyed living through the recent unpleasantness).

Next up, Caroline Angus’s Henry VIII’s Children – Legitimate and Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Tudor King, which was released in May in the UK will be out at the end of July in the US:

And The Queen’s Frog Prince: The courtship of Elizabeth I and the Duke of Anjou by David Lee is now out in both the UK and the US:

Next is yet another one I missed last month, The Tudors by Michelle Rosenberg, part of the History Snapshots series and it’s out in both the UK and the US:

Finally to the brand new releases!

Conor Byrne, who released a book on Kathryn Howard a few years back, now as a new book – Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy coming out on July 13 in the UK and it will be out next year in the US.

And one that I’m really looking forward to – Eating with the Tudors by Brigitte Webster will be out at the end of July in the UK and in the fall in the US. For those of you who don’t know, Brigitte and her husband bought and have been restoring an old Tudor manor house in Norfolk. I’ve been following their research and work on the house and gardens on social media for years now and I’m definitely going to have to visit someday! More info here: https://www.tudorexperience.com/

Continuing Exhibitions

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England is now out on the US west coast and opened at the Legion of Honor, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It opened there on June 24 and will close on September 24.

Hever Castle has a new exhibition that debuted when it reopened for the year on February 8 – Catherine & Anne: Queens, Rivals, Mothers. Admission to the exhibition is included with tickets to the castle. There is also a companion book available which can also be purchased from the online shop.

Picture of the Week #761

Plaque next to Mary Tudor’s grave in St. Mary’s Church, Bury St. Edmunds. Photo May 2015.

Even though I recently used a photo from the church, since the 490th anniversary of Mary’s death fell on a Sunday I felt I had to use another!

Upcoming Books, Exhibitions, and Events for June 2023

Welcome June and summertime (or winter, depending on your hemisphere)! Hopefully something in here strikes your fancy for summer beach reading (or cozy winter fireside reading).

Books

One book that I missed for last month’s round-up was Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang, featuring Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots. It was released on May 11 in the UK and will be out in August in the US:

Next up, Edward VI: Henry VIII’s Overshadowed Son by Stephanie Kline came out in late April in the UK and will be out in late June in the US:

And Tracy Borman’s Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History, which came out in May in the UK is out on June 20 in the US:

Finally, for the previously-released books, Henry VIII: A History of his Most Important Places and Events by Andrew Beattie was released at the end of May in the UK and will be out at the end of June in the US:

New Releases

Children of the House of Cleves: Anna and Her Siblings by Heather R. Darsie will be out in mid-June in the UK and in September in the US. Always nice to see more work on Anne of Cleves and her family!

Next up, The Tudors by Numbers: The Stories and Statistics Behind England’s Most Infamous Royal Dynasty by Carol Ann Lloyd will be out at the end of June in the UK and the end of August in the US.

And finally, The Queen’s Frog Prince: The Courtship of Elizabeth I and the Duke of Anjou by David Lee will be out at the end of June in the UK and on July 1 in the US:

Continuing Exhibitions

Hever Castle has a new exhibition that debuted when it reopened for the year on February 8 – Catherine & Anne: Queens, Rivals, Mothers. Admission to the exhibition is included with tickets to the castle. There is also a companion book available which can also be purchased from the online shop.

Blog weirdness going on…

Howdy to anyone who still reads this blog on any kind of regular basis!

I received an email a couple of weeks ago mentioning that most of the text on the “About this blog” page was missing which should have been my first clue that some weirdness was afoot. And today I was working on the “Picture of the Week” post and searched on previous pics I’d used of Anne Hathaway’s cottage and noticed that half of the caption text was missing on some of the old posts. So then I started looking through the blog archives and noticed there were whole posts that had significant chunks of their content missing. My guess is that either the migration to the new host’s servers (done by the host, not me) or a WordPress update randomly nuked parts of old posts.

So now I’ll be going through all of the old posts and trying to fix them, which I can do thanks to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine! And as I’ve scanned back through the post archives, I realize that this is going to be a significant task so it’s going to take a while. Thanks for your patience!

Upcoming Books, Exhibitions, and Events for May 2023

I know I seem to say this every month, but it’s hard to believe how we’re flying through the year. May often means the start of the really hot weather here in Texas (which will continue through to the end of September) but we might get lucky this year and at least also have a wet summer. Which will be good for the gardening projects I’ve started!

Books

First up this month, Tracy Borman’s newest work Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History will be out on May 18 in the UK and the following month in the US. It sounds like an interesting approach to telling the story of two women who have had A LOT written about them over the years!

Next up is Arthur, Prince of Wales: Henry VIII’s Lost Brother by Gareth Streeter, which will be out at the end of May in the UK and the end of July in the US. Nice to see another work on Arthur – for such a relatively short life, he played such a big role in Tudor history (and history in general, come to think of it…)

Henry VIII’s Children – Legitimate and Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Tudor King by Caroline Angus is also due out at the end of the month in the UK and the end of July in the US:

And finally, Henry VIII: A History of his Most Important Places and Events by Andrew Beattie is also out at the end of May in the UK but is due at the end of June in the US:

Continuing Exhibitions

Hever Castle has a new exhibition that debuted when it reopened for the year on February 8 – Catherine & Anne: Queens, Rivals, Mothers. Admission to the exhibition is included with tickets to the castle. There is also a companion book available which can also be purchased from the online shop.

Wrapping up this month:

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England which was recently on display in New York has now moved to the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio. It opened on February 26 and will run through May 14. If the exhibition continues to tour, I hope it makes its way down to Texas now that I finally have a reliable car to drive to Houston or Dallas if it goes to one of those cities.