Special Edition “A Man For All Seasons” (1966) DVD

This week in the US a special edition of the Academy Award-winning “A Man for All Seasons” movie from 1966 was released on DVD. The UK version was released last week. The links below goes to my Amazon affiliate stores. The US is on the left and the UK is on the right. If you order, be sure to get the correct one if you don’t have a region-free DVD player.

TudorCast #8 – January 2007

Here it is, finally! Yes, I know I said I’d have it posted yesterday but anyone who knows me should have automatically translated this into “oh, it will be up maybe by the end of next week…”.

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January episode coming soon!

Hello all! I’m hoping to finally get the January podcast recorded tonight, so I’ll get it posted tomorrow. Sorry for the delay!

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First Female Beefeater

While I guess this isn’t strictly Tudor related (not like that has stopped me before), I was pleased to see that the first woman has been selected to the ranks of the Yeoman Warders at the Tower of London. Actually, I guess there is a Tudor connection, since they were started by Henry VII…

From the Times Online:

A woman has been appointed to the ranks of the Tower of London

Catching up

Hello all! I hope everyone is having a good 2007 so far!

I meant to put something up on the news blog about the new design for the front page of TudorHistory.org, but bad weather, a satellite internet connection at home and getting caught up at work have all conspired against it.

So, yes, I’ve changed the front page again. I think the “window” design has only been up for two years (at the most), but I wanted something with smaller graphics and more text that *should* help people find what they are looking for a bit easier. At least, that’s the plan. Plus, this design matches the rest of the site a bit better. I might be tweaking the designs of the blogs a bit too, when I get a chance. Apologies to those who liked the old design better. At some point I’m going to put together a little gallery of all the old designs, since I have the files for most of the revisions from the old tudor.simplenet.com all the way through today.

Also, I’m going to start turning on comments for posts here at the news blog. I really didn’t have any reason to not have comments before, I just didn’t think about it. So from now on all my blogs will have comments turned on by default. I will have comment moderation turned on though, mostly to keep comment spam out.

Tudor Christmas Feast to be televised

For those of you with access to BBC2:

A FEAST of a boar’s head, peacock complete with flaming beak and a salad in the design of the family coat of arms may not sound like a typical family Christmas lunch but back in Tudor days it was all part of the traditional festive atmosphere for the lords and ladies of the time, all eaten in full costume whilst musicians provided in-house entertainment.
This scene was recreated in the stately setting of Haddon Hall to bring the magic of a Tudor banqueting hall to life for a BBC2 documentary to be shown over Christmas.

A Tudor Feast at Christmas was filmed earlier this year as a follow up to the Tales from the Green Valley and will be shown at 9pm on Friday December 22.

Full article here

Late 15th century altar paintings now on display

From the BBC:

A pair of late 15th Century altar paintings are going on display in London after a 450-year absence.
The panels, thought to have furnished a chapel at Westminster Abbey, passed intact through the upheavals of the Reformation.
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They are now on display at the Museum of London.

They are thought to have been removed from Westminster Abbey either in 1536, when it was stripped of its shrines and images, in 1540, when it briefly converted into a cathedral, or in around 1547 during the strict Protestantism of Edward VI.

Full article

24 Hour Museum also has an article: Museum of London Aquires Rare Medieval Altar Panels

Both articles have pictures of the panels.