{"id":8577,"date":"2013-10-27T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=8577"},"modified":"2013-10-27T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T19:26:08","slug":"sunday-short-takes-127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/27\/sunday-short-takes-127\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Short Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of stories this week since I got totally sidetracked on something last weekend and never got around to writing a post!<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-oxfordshire-24609770\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bodleian Libraries&#8217; archives reveal &#8216;lost&#8217; Rycote mansion<\/a> &#8211; <i>The &#8220;lost&#8221; history of a Tudor mansion that hosted six English kings and queens, including Henry VIII, has been restored in a new online archive.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>You can see the online archive here: <a href=\"http:\/\/rycote.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rediscovering Rycote<\/a>. There are some great resources at the site, including a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/rycote.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/palaeography\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">palaeography tutorial<\/a>. Yes, my quest to get better at reading Tudor handwriting still continues&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* And more from the Elizabeth I and Her People exhibition at the NPG:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/tudorpeople\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth I and Her People<\/a> &#8211; Slideshow from BBC History Extra. And the first part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/podcast\/tudor-portraits-and-victorian-footballers\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this week&#8217;s History Extra podcast<\/a> includes a discussion of the exhibition with Dr. Tarnya Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>The National Portrait Gallery&#8217;s You Tube channel has several videos related to the exhibition. I&#8217;ve embedded one below, but be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/natportraitgallery\/videos\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check out the others at the channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gzbmwGcrMWk?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gzbmwGcrMWk?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2476792\/Castle-fit-king-House-owned-Henry-VIII-sale-2-6million-wedding-venue-garden.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A castle fit for a king: Historic home once owned by Henry VIII and used for trysts with his mistresses goes up for sale for <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of stories this week since I got totally sidetracked on something last weekend and never got around to writing a post! * Bodleian Libraries&#8217; archives reveal &#8216;lost&#8217; Rycote mansion &#8211; The &#8220;lost&#8221; history of a Tudor mansion that hosted six English kings and queens, including Henry VIII, has been&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/27\/sunday-short-takes-127\/\">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":[6,2,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news","category-architecture-news","category-art-news","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577","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=8577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}