{"id":15868,"date":"2026-02-02T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=15868"},"modified":"2026-03-01T17:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:07:28","slug":"upcoming-books-and-events-for-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/02\/upcoming-books-and-events-for-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Books and Events for February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can a month simultaneously seem as though it flew by in a flash but also lasted a thousand years? Because that&#8217;s what January 2026 felt like.<\/p>\n<p><b>Books<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a couple of new books this month, although one is a book that I missed last month!<\/p>\n<p>A new book about Anne of Cleves, <b><i>Accounting for Anne: The Tudor Queen Who Could Have Been<\/i><\/b> by James Taffe came out last month in both the US and UK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NSxC4v\" target=\"new\">Purchase at Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4rkcRNw\" target=\"new\">Purchase at Amazon US<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And <b><i>Bloody, Brilliant Tudors: 100 Tales of Gowns, Gossip and Gory Ends<\/i><\/b> will be out in the UK and US on February 19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4adcNbC\" target=\"new\">Purchase at Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4rEjQl3\" target=\"new\">Purchase at Amazon US<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Exhibition<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hevercastle.co.uk\/whats-on\/capturing-a-queen\/\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/Capturing-A-Queen-sm.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hever Castle is hosting a new exhibition, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hevercastle.co.uk\/whats-on\/capturing-a-queen\/\" target=\"new\">Capturing a Queen: The Image of Anne Boleyn<\/a><\/b> which &#8220;brings together the largest ever gathering of portraits believed to depict Anne Boleyn, including a ground-breaking newly identified contemporary image unveiled for the first time.&#8221; The exhibition will run from February 11, 2026 to January 2, 2027 and is included with admission to the castle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can a month simultaneously seem as though it flew by in a flash but also lasted a thousand years? Because that&#8217;s what January 2026 felt like. Books I&#8217;ve got a couple of new books this month, although one is a book that I missed last month! A new book&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/02\/upcoming-books-and-events-for-february-2026\/\">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-15868","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\/15868","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=15868"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15905,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions\/15905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}