{"id":9096,"date":"2014-06-04T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T04:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=9096"},"modified":"2023-05-21T16:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:21:28","slug":"guest-post-and-book-give-away-our-favourite-george-boleyn-sources-by-clare-cherry-and-claire-ridgway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/04\/guest-post-and-book-give-away-our-favourite-george-boleyn-sources-by-clare-cherry-and-claire-ridgway\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post and Book Give Away: Our Favourite George Boleyn Sources by Clare Cherry and Claire Ridgway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m honored to be the next stop on Clare Cherry and Claire Ridgway&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theanneboleynfiles.com\/george-boleyn-virtual-book-tour-26-may-7-june-2014\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Boleyn Virtual Book Tour<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The authors have offered a free copy of the book, so click over to the form and leave your email address: <a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/survey\/survey.php?s_id=6\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;George Boleyn: Poet, Courtier and Diplomat&#8221; book give-away<\/a> (The contest will be closed on Sunday June 15 at noon US central daylight time.) Update: The contest is now closed. More information on the book is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgeboleyn.com\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GeorgeBoleyn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/GBtour2014\/george_boleyn_cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/GBtour2014\/george_boleyn_cover-sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Our Favourite George Boleyn Sources by Clare Cherry and Claire Ridgway<\/b><\/p>\n<p>People often assume that there is not much primary source information about George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, but that is simply not the case. George was a diplomat, an important courtier, a member of the King&#8217;s Privy Chamber and Privy Council, and brother-in-law to the King, so he is regularly mentioned in the state papers in the 1520s and 30s.<\/p>\n<p>We used a whole range of primary sources in researching for <i>George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier and Diplomat<\/i> but today we&#8217;d like to share our favourite ones, ones that we feel give us an insight into what George was really like.<\/p>\n<p>Clare <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m honored to be the next stop on Clare Cherry and Claire Ridgway&#8217;s George Boleyn Virtual Book Tour! The authors have offered a free copy of the book, so click over to the form and leave your email address: &#8220;George Boleyn: Poet, Courtier and Diplomat&#8221; book give-away (The contest will&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/04\/guest-post-and-book-give-away-our-favourite-george-boleyn-sources-by-clare-cherry-and-claire-ridgway\/\">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":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-news","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096","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=9096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14721,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions\/14721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}