{"id":8606,"date":"2013-11-10T15:58:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T21:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=8606"},"modified":"2013-11-10T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T21:58:33","slug":"sunday-short-takes-128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/10\/sunday-short-takes-128\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Short Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a hodge-podge of things today, including three things that you can help out with!<\/p>\n<p>* Foose noted in the comments a couple of weeks ago that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/veteran-actor-nigel-davenport-has-passed-away-at-85\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">actor Nigel Davenport passed away on October 25th<\/a>. He was Norfolk in the 1966 &#8220;A Man for All Seasons&#8221; and Bothwell in the 1971 &#8220;Mary Queen of Scots&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2487043\/Treasure-recovered-Caribbean-wreck-historical-value-bounty-Mary-Rose.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frozen in time: Divers recover stunning collection of British treasure from the wreck of a 500-year-old galleon sunk in Caribbean<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now on to the things you can help with!<\/p>\n<p>* If you&#8217;ve ever downloaded documents from Archive.org please consider sending them a small donation after <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.archive.org\/2013\/11\/06\/scanning-center-fire-please-help-rebuild\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their scanning facility was damaged by fire last week<\/a>. The archive has scanned many old books with primary sources and are a valuable resource to Tudor history fans and researchers alike.<\/p>\n<p>* Have an interesting Tudor item you might like to sell? The Channel 4 program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/four-rooms\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Four Rooms<\/a> wants to hear from you! <a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/pdf\/4rooms.pdf\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for more information<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n<p>* The <a href=\"http:\/\/rycote.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rediscovering Rycote<\/a> project that I <a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/27\/sunday-short-takes-127\/\">mentioned a couple of weeks ago<\/a> is hosting a Wikipedia Editathon on Friday November 15. You don&#8217;t need any prior Wikipedia editing experience and you can participate virtually if you aren&#8217;t lucky enough to be in Oxford. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:WikiProject_University_of_Oxford\/RediscoveringRycote\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can learn more about it here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a hodge-podge of things today, including three things that you can help out with! * Foose noted in the comments a couple of weeks ago that actor Nigel Davenport passed away on October 25th. He was Norfolk in the 1966 &#8220;A Man for All Seasons&#8221; and Bothwell in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/10\/sunday-short-takes-128\/\">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":[6,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news","category-entertainment","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606","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=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}