{"id":8880,"date":"2014-02-16T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T20:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2014-02-16T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T20:51:51","slug":"sunday-short-takes-137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/16\/sunday-short-takes-137\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Short Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story that lit up my news alerts the most this past week was the announcement that a team of researchers working on the DNA of Richard III are going to map the king&#8217;s complete genome:<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-leicestershire-26142693\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard III: Scientists to sequence DNA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another popular story last week was the auction of another supposed flag from the Battle of Bosworth (<a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/29\/sunday-short-takes-124\/\">see here for a link to another<\/a> from past September):<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-26157211\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard III&#8217;s &#8216;Battle of Bosworth flag&#8217; sold at Suffolk auction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Tudors on TV&#8221; news &#8211; Suzannah Lipscomb&#8217;s newest program, a two-part documentary on Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn&#8217;s relationship, starts Thursday on Channel 5 in the UK:<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel5.com\/shows\/henry-anne-the-lovers-who-changed-history\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henry &#038; Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishlibrary\/12459022403\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/henryharp.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to give a shout-out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishlibrary\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Library&#8217;s Flickr account<\/a>, which now has over 1 million public domain images from their collections. And of course there are some Tudor-history-related items in there, such as the one above of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishlibrary\/12459022403\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henry VIII and Will Somers from the Psalter of Henry VIII<\/a> and this one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishlibrary\/12459257054\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trial of Mary Queen of Scots<\/a> as just a few examples!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story that lit up my news alerts the most this past week was the announcement that a team of researchers working on the DNA of Richard III are going to map the king&#8217;s complete genome: * Richard III: Scientists to sequence DNA Another popular story last week was the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/16\/sunday-short-takes-137\/\">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":[6,8,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news","category-art-news","category-entertainment","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880","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=8880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}