{"id":4229,"date":"2010-11-07T15:40:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T21:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/07\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T15:40:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T21:40:41","slug":"sunday-short-takes-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/07\/sunday-short-takes-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Short Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* I meant to post this a few weeks ago &#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbchistorymagazine.com\/issue\/november-2010\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November issue of BBC History Magazine<\/a> has a cover article titled <i>The Secret War Against the Tudors<\/i> about the various plots against Henry VII and Henry VIII<\/p>\n<p>* And because I thought it was really interesting &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/blog\/2010\/oct\/29\/science-magic-stained-glass?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heavenly illumination: The science and magic of stained glass<\/a> (from The Guardian&#8217;s science blog)<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/you\/article-1326591\/Was-Henry-Vllls-wife-anorexic-Catherine-Aragons-secret-problem.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Was Henry Vlll&#8217;s first wife anorexic? Catherine of Aragon&#8217;s secret problem<\/a> (I have no idea why they have a portrait of Charles V labeled as Prince Arthur)<\/p>\n<p>The author of the above article also has a new book on Catherine (as far as I know, the first dedicated biography of Catherine since Garrett Mattingly&#8217;s) which just came out in the UK and will be out in a few weeks in the US. Usual Amazon links below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=tudorhistory-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0802779166&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> <iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=tudorhistoryo-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0571235115&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* I meant to post this a few weeks ago &#8211; The November issue of BBC History Magazine has a cover article titled The Secret War Against the Tudors about the various plots against Henry VII and Henry VIII * And because I thought it was really interesting &#8211; Heavenly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/07\/sunday-short-takes-17\/\">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-4229","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\/4229","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=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}