{"id":11354,"date":"2017-07-03T18:21:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T23:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=11354"},"modified":"2017-07-03T18:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T23:21:17","slug":"upcoming-books-exhibitions-and-events-for-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/upcoming-books-exhibitions-and-events-for-july-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Books, Exhibitions, and Events for July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Books<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Norton&#8217;s <i>The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History<\/i> (US title) has been out for a while in the UK and will be out at the beginning of July 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=1784081760&#038;asins=1784081760&#038;linkId=c5269660d07cec01ba7393d6ee731bf8&#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> <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=1681774402&#038;asins=1681774402&#038;linkId=86f23aafb7d488b66c9499700f9cc928&#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>One book I missed a couple of months ago was <i>Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World<\/i> by Simon Thurley, which was released in the UK in April. I haven&#8217;t found any US publishing info yet, but I&#8217;ll add it if I do.<\/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=0593074947&#038;asins=0593074947&#038;linkId=010dad0ef384bd0e65db8ac4a1f81ac0&#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>In new releases, <i>Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty<\/i> by Terry Breverton will be out in mid-July in the UK and in October 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=1445654180&#038;asins=1445654180&#038;linkId=7bac142ebc20fc53b08c01014f3c0e46&#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> <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=1445654180&#038;asins=1445654180&#038;linkId=4fe87aae3bd0d2ac791c30f179c338d8&#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><b>Events<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/queen-of-bradgate-celebrations-at-bradgate-park-will-mark-the-nine-days-lady-jane-grey-was-queen\/story-30374395-detail\/story.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen of Bradgate celebrations at Bradgate Park<\/a> &#8211; Bradgate Park, which holds the remains of the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey, will be honoring the Nine Days Queen from July 8 to July 16. An overview is available at the link above and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradgatepark.org\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the official website for Bradgate Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrp.org.uk\/hampton-court-palace\/explore\/tudor-joust\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tudor Joust<\/a> is returning to Hampton Court Palace on July 15 and 16. Events will be going on all day on both days and no extra ticketing is required (it is included in the palace admission).<\/p>\n<p><b>New Exhibitions<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/221439832\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reformation.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reformation &#8211; Shattered World, New Beginnings<\/a> opened on June 26 (I missed this one last month!) and runs through December 15 at the Senate House Library at the University of London. A video introduction by Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb is embedded above and you can download a digital copy of the exhibition catalogue for free at the website (something I like to see more of for those of us who can&#8217;t make it to a lot of these events and don&#8217;t want to pay for the expensive shipping to the US!).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/whatson\/encounter\/exhibition\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/encounter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/whatson\/encounter\/exhibition\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Encounter &#8211; Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt<\/a> opens at the National Portrait Gallery, London on July 12 and runs through October 22. Tickets can be booked at the gallery&#8217;s website linked above. More about the exhibition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The creative encounter between individual artists and sitters is explored in this major exhibition featuring portrait drawings by some of the outstanding masters of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/museum-collection\/exhibitions\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/bloodroyal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/museum-collection\/exhibitions\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blood Royal: Picturing the Tudor Monarchy<\/a> opens on July 25 and runs through August 25 at The Society of Antiquaries of London. They don&#8217;t have a dedicated page for the exhibition yet, but I&#8217;ll update the link when they do.<\/p>\n<p><b>Continuing Exhibitions and Displays<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with <a href=\"http:\/\/londonartweek.co.uk\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London Art Week<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weissgallery.com\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Weiss Gallery<\/a> will run a special exhibition <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weissgallery.com\/events\/courting-favour-elizabeth-i-james-i-exhibition-tudor-jacobean-portraits-26th-june-14th-july\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Courting Favour: From Elizabeth I to James I<\/a><\/i> from June 26 through July 14, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/theweissgallery\/docs\/_22courting_favour_-_from_elizabeth\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can see the catalogue here<\/a>. A little more about the exhibition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe centerpiece of the show will be a beautiful portrayal of the youthful Queen Elizabeth I, a bust-length version of the magnificent &#8216;Hampden&#8217; fulllength, currently on loan to Tate Britain. Displayed either side of the Queen will be portraits of her two great favourites Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/waddesdon.org.uk\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Waddesdon Manor<\/a> in Buckinghamshire is <i><a href=\"https:\/\/waddesdon.org.uk\/whats-on\/elizabethan-power-portraiture-hilliard\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Power &#038; Portraiture: painting at the court of Elizabeth I<\/a><\/i> opened on June 7 and  will run through October 29, 2017 at  From the website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA special display exploring how Elizabeth I and her courtiers used portraits to fashion their public image and promote themselves in a glamorous, dangerous world.<\/p>\n<p>Two spectacular panel paintings by Nicholas Hilliard will be accompanied by loans from the Royal Collection and National Portrait Gallery. Visitors will learn about the scientific and scholarly detective work that has led to this important discovery and will be able to compare it with the famous <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books Elizabeth Norton&#8217;s The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History (US title) has been out for a while in the UK and will be out at the beginning of July in the US. One book I missed a couple of months ago was Houses of Power: The Places&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/upcoming-books-exhibitions-and-events-for-july-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":[8,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news","category-book-news","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354","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=11354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}