{"id":11242,"date":"2017-04-02T16:54:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T21:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=11242"},"modified":"2017-04-02T16:54:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T21:54:13","slug":"upcoming-books-and-exhibitions-for-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/02\/upcoming-books-and-exhibitions-for-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Books and Exhibitions for April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Books<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A few books that have already been out for a while in the UK will be released in April in the US:<\/p>\n<p>Amy Licence&#8217;s <i>Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII&#8217;s True Wife<\/i> is now out in the US after a release last fall in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=GB&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=tudorhistoryo-21&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=GB&#038;placement=1445656701&#038;asins=1445656701&#038;linkId=&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe> <iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=tudorhistory-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1445656701&#038;asins=1445656701&#038;linkId=3e20c838bca4358d4470bce011b79f35&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gareth Russell&#8217;s <i>Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII<\/i> was released in January in the UK and will be out on April 4 in the US with the slightly different title <i>Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII<\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=GB&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=tudorhistoryo-21&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=GB&#038;placement=0008128278&#038;asins=0008128278&#038;linkId=&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe> <iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=tudorhistory-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1501108638&#038;asins=1501108638&#038;linkId=6198b0c1713253b762ccd978a729c997&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Anne Boleyn in London<\/i> by Lissa Chapman has been out since October in the UK and will be out later this month in the US.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=GB&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=tudorhistoryo-21&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=GB&#038;placement=1473843618&#038;asins=1473843618&#038;linkId=&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe> <iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=tudorhistory-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1473843618&#038;asins=1473843618&#038;linkId=dcb86f6a490efb1895183663193d016b&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And a couple of new books are out the month &#8211; it looks like the Scottish branch (i.e. descendants of Margaret Tudor) are getting some more attention these days:<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Tudor&#8217;s daughter from her second marriage is the subject of <i>So High a Blood: The Life of Margaret, Countess of Lennox<\/i> by Morgan Ring is out in both the UK and US on April 6:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=GB&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=tudorhistoryo-21&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=GB&#038;placement=1408859661&#038;asins=1408859661&#038;linkId=&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe> <iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=tudorhistory-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=140885967X&#038;asins=140885967X&#038;linkId=f3a1805ec2b1707adcc4fc6caed669ef&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And Margaret Tudor&#8217;s great-granddaughter, Arbella Stuart is featured in Jill Armitage&#8217;s <i>Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen<\/i> which will be out April 15 in the UK. I don&#8217;t see a US release date yet, but I&#8217;ll update when if I get more info.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=GB&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=tudorhistoryo-21&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=GB&#038;placement=1445650193&#038;asins=1445650193&#038;linkId=&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Events<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Tudor Queens Day<\/b> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gainsborougholdhall.com\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gainsborough Old Hall<\/a> to be held on May 13, 2017 &#8211; join authors Alison\tWeir and Nicola\tTallis and local historian Marilyn Roberts for talks on the wives of Henry VIII and Lady Jane Grey. (This is another that I&#8217;m posting a month early in case tickets sell out!) <a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/pdf\/tudorqueens.pdf\">PDF flyer with more information, including how to get tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has a listing of a number of events between March and June &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrp.org.uk\/hampton-court-palace\/whats-on\/talks-and-debates\/#gs.kbWBqEk\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Power and Performance at Hampton Court Palace<\/a> &#8211; <i>Join author and historian Lauren Johnson as she hosts an impressive line-up of speakers to explore ideas of power and performance in the lively Tudor court.<\/i> The next talk is April 25 on &#8220;Plays of persuasion&#8221;. Ticket information is at the link.<\/p>\n<p><b>Exhibitions<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.folger.edu\/exhibitions\/500-years-of-treasures-from-oxford\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">500 Years of Treasures from Oxford<\/a> opened at the Washington DC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folger.edu\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Folger Shakespeare Library<\/a> in February and will run through the end of April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books A few books that have already been out for a while in the UK will be released in April in the US: Amy Licence&#8217;s Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII&#8217;s True Wife is now out in the US after a release last fall in the UK&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/02\/upcoming-books-and-exhibitions-for-april-2017\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-news","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}