{"id":3850,"date":"2010-08-08T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T23:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/"},"modified":"2010-08-08T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T23:15:43","slug":"sunday-short-takes-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/sunday-short-takes-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Short Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"

* Bosworth Battlefield Anniversary Re-enactment<\/a> at the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and Country Park on August 21 and 22nd. Also, if you are descended from someone who fought at the Battle of Bosworth, the Centre wants to hear from you! Here’s an article about the search for descendants: Visitor Centre curators in search to locate descendants of men from the Battle of Bosworth<\/a>, as well as this article with the headline that seems to imply they only want people from Richard III’s side, even though the article explains further: Did your ancestors fight for Richard III?<\/a>
\n[Added August 9 – Here’s another article on this that I had to add. Apparently someone at BBC Leicester thinks “ancestor” and “descendant” are interchangeable terms: Search for ancestors of Battle of Bosworth soldiers<\/a>]
\n[Updated August 10 – The BBC article has now been corrected.]<\/p>\n

* An update on the development plans for Westminster Abbey<\/a> that I blogged about back in 2009<\/a>. Unfortunately they will not be going ahead with the plan to add a corona to the Abbey at this time but they will be finishing the new cafe and the plans to open the Triforium (which I’m really looking forward to seeing one day!).<\/p>\n

* An interesting article from the Guardian about accuracy in historical fiction: The lying art of historical fiction<\/a><\/p>\n

* Little Miss Sunnydale has posted a neat Mary I themed tour of London<\/a> on her Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen blog<\/a><\/p>\n

* And finally, Philippa Gregory’s latest novel, The Red Queen came out last week in the US and will be out in a couple of weeks in the UK. It continues her look at the Wars of the Roses, this time from the perspective of Margaret Beaufort. I haven’t read any of Gregory’s books, but I’m tempted to pick this up since Margaret is one of my Tudor interests and I’m curious to see how she fares in the author’s hands, especially since she hasn’t been featured very often in fiction. Standard Amazon links below:<\/p>\n