“The Tudors” give-away and survey extended

I’m going to leave the survey open for another two weeks because I’m going to be very, very busy in the next week or so, so I don’t think I’ll get a chance to deal with all of that this weekend.

BTW, I was originally hoping to get the October podcast out this weekend (Oct 13-14), but it looks like next weekend is more realistic. I’m slowly moving them up towards the beginning of the month, but I probably won’t start getting them out in the first week of the month until the start of the new year.

Here’s the link to the survey, if you haven’t already taken it.

“The Tudors” give-away and survey extended

I’m going to leave the survey open for another two weeks because I’m going to be very, very busy in the next week or so, so I don’t think I’ll get a chance to deal with all of that this weekend.

BTW, I was originally hoping to get the October podcast out this weekend (Oct 13-14), but it looks like next weekend is more realistic. I’m slowly moving them up towards the beginning of the month, but I probably won’t start getting them out in the first week of the month until the start of the new year.

Here’s the link to the survey, if you haven’t already taken it.

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Image of Elizabeth’s Birth Announcement

Here is the image of the birth announcement that I read in the September episode of the podcast. Sorry it took me a while to get it posted! I’ll add it to the letters page on the the site (along with the transcript) eventually.

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Apethorpe Hall Restoration and Opening to the Public

From the BBC:

A 15th Century hall once owned by Henry VIII has opened its doors.
Work to rescue the dilapidated Grade I listed Apethorpe Hall has been carried out by English Heritage after it was labelled an “irreplaceable treasure”.

The comment was made in 2004 by then Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell after the Northants site was recommended for compulsory purchase by the government.

Tours around the hall for visitors are being run by English Heritage, as it nears the completion of

Posting issues

I’ve been having quite a bit of trouble getting my various TudorHistory blogs to publish since Sunday. I’ve been reading through the Blogger help groups and it appears that a lot of other folks are having the same issues. I tried one strange thing with the TudorCast blog which actually worked, although it then did NOT work when I tried to put up a post explaining why the podcast was two days late.

Now I’m going to try the same trick with this blog, so let’s see if this works… It’s obvious that there is still a big underlying problem at Blogger, so posting might still be a bit spotty until it is fixed.

Sorry this is two days late

But this time it really wasn’t me being behind or busy! I actually had this ready to go on Sunday and then Blogger decided to not play well with others (as in, publishing to other domains). I finally hit on something that worked (even though there is no obvious reason for WHY it worked), so now the podcast is up. The one time I actually managed to get everything together a week early, it doesn’t publish…

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TudorCast #16 – September 2007

Featured Website: ElizabethI.org

Inns of Court websites: Gray’s Inn, Lincoln’s Inn, Inner Temple and Middle Temple

Survey and “The Tudors” Give-away

Music from Magnatune.com

La Primavera, The Dufay Collective (album “Cancionero”) and Jacob Heringman (album “Blame Not My Lute”)

Intro – “Greensleeves” by La Primavera on “English Renaissance Music”
After news – Excerpt from “Fantasia” by Dufay Collective on “Cancionero”
After “This Month” – “Baloo” by Jacob Heringman.
After glossary – “Ungaresca” by La Primavera
After text – “Bella Gioiosa” by Jacob Heringman
After closing – “Que faray ie mal fortune” by Dufay Collective on “Cancionero”

I know I said I’d link to a picture of the letter that I read in the texts section, but I can’t find my scan of it, so I’ll add it in another post. And I apologize for all the stray breath noises in the episode. I was kind of sloppy with trying to avoid that this month, but I’ll do better next time!

Episode Transcript

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Couple more new books of interest

A few more books of interest will be coming out shortly…

First up, another book on Katherine Swynford, ancestor of the Tudors through the Beaufort line. It will be out in October in the US and appears to already be out in the UK.

And next is a book on George Boleyn’s infamous wife Jane, Lady Rochford. For some reason two versions are showing up at Amazon.uk, so I’ve linked to both below. One is available for purchase now and another is due out in . The US version is due in December.

Thanks to Kate for mentioning the book on Jane!

Society of Antiquaries celebrates anniversary with large exhibition

From The Guardian:

The Anglo-Saxon kings, newly restored and on public display for the first time in 500 years, gaze out regally, showing no signs of having spent a century walled up in an outside lavatory in Kent.

The kings are among the treasures which the Society of Antiquaries is putting on display to celebrate its 330th birthday, in the galleries of its next door neighbour, the Royal Academy. The imposing but eccentric collection includes Tudor royal portraits described by David Starkey, an expert on the history of the period, as “staggering”[.]

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The life size paintings of Athelstan, and another unidentified Anglo Saxon king, are also royal propaganda. They are completely fictional portraits, but were painted for Henry VII, probably for his great hall at Eltham Palace, to assert his own place in the pagaent of English history. They were rediscovered in 1813, turned back to front and used as wainscotting in an outside lavatory at Baston House in Kent, along with fragments of four other kings, all hacked to pieces to fit the wall space.

The exhibition runs through December.

Full article

Society of Antiquaries of London website

Update: Here’s another good article (with slideshow) from The Guardian

New Episode of TudorCast and a Give-away!

First up, episode #15 of TudorCast is now posted.

And, I’d like to announce that I’ve put together a silly little survey as a way to get entries for the first Tudorhistory.org/TudorTalk/TudorCast give-away. The folks at Showtime were nice enough to send me some goodies from “The Tudors” television series to give away to other Tudor fans. You can take the survey and enter the contest over at tudorhistory.org/contest. Also, if you want to take the survey but not enter the contest, you can do that as well, just don’t enter an email address in the last box.

I’ll post the results of the survey here and contact the winners in the second half of October!

TudorCast #15 – August 2007

Featured website Official Website of the British Monarchy

Survey and “The Tudors” Give-away

Music from Magnatune.com

La Primavera, The Dufay Collective (album “Cancionero” and “L’Estampida”) and Jacob Herringman (album “Blame Not My Lute”)

Individual tracks:

Intro – “Greensleeves” by La Primavera on “English Renaissance Music”
After News: excerpt from “Wolsey’s Wilde” by La Primavera on “English Renaissance Music”
After “This Month”: “O What is to Love” by Jacob Herringman (album “Blame Not My Lute”)
After Glossary: “Dindiridin” by Dufay Collective (album “Cancionero”)
After Text: excerpt from “Oxenford” by La Primavera on “English Renaissance Music”
After closing remarks: “Musica para discanter sobre un” by Dufay Collective (album “Cancionero”)

Episode Transcript

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