{"id":9202,"date":"2014-07-27T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=9202"},"modified":"2014-07-27T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T19:45:39","slug":"sunday-short-takes-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/sunday-short-takes-150\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Short Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for a bunch of links this week!<\/p>\n<p><b>The <a href=\"http:\/\/kriii.com\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King Richard III Visitor Centre<\/a> in Leicester opened this weekend, so here are a few articles related to that:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/Richard-III-look-inside-Leicester-s-new-visitor\/story-21746167-detail\/story.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard III: A look inside Leicester&#8217;s new visitor centre<\/a> &#8211; This link from the <i>Leicester Mercury<\/i> has a short video tour<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2014\/jul\/22\/richard-iii-visitor-centre-leicester\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard III visitor centre in Leicester opens its doors to the public<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>And in more archaeology news:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chad.co.uk\/news\/local\/archaeological-dig-uncovers-rufford-medieval-church-thought-to-have-been-destroyed-by-henry-viii-1-6734659\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Archaeological dig uncovers Rufford medieval church thought to have been destroyed by Henry VIII<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.derbytelegraph.co.uk\/dig-Come-help-Tudor-mansion-Derby-park\/story-21937361-detail\/story.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Help find Tudor mansion in Markeaton Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Some more interesting stories that came along:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-kent-28462248\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henry VIII&#8217;s armour returns to Leeds Castle after 500 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historytoday.com\/suzannah-lipscomb\/how-does-it-feel\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Does It Feel?<\/a> &#8211; <i>Understanding the emotional lives of people in the past is one of the most difficult challenges facing the historian, argues Suzannah Lipscomb.<\/i> &#8211; I thought this was interesting in light of the &#8220;feelings&#8221; questions I&#8217;ve gotten on the Q&#038;A blog over the years.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/news\/tudors\/tudor-stewart-marriage-oak-chest-wedding-gift-james-iv-and-margaret-tudor-discovered\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Tudor-Stewart marriage: oak chest wedding gift for James IV and Margaret Tudor discovered<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>And some BBC History Extra Tudor podcast goodness:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/podcast\/tudors\/richard-iii-and-dirty-tudors\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard III and dirty Tudors<\/a> &#8211; The past week&#8217;s podcast<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/feature\/tudors\/top-10-tudor-podcasts\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Top 10 Tudor podcasts<\/a> &#8211; and a round-up of past Tudor-related podcasts you might have missed<\/p>\n<p><b>Just for fun:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/quiz\/citizenship\/could-you-become-citizen-elizabethan-england\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Could you become a citizen of Elizabethan England?<\/a> &#8211; Another entertaining quiz from BBC History Extra (I always do their weekly quiz &#8211; to date I think I have gotten a perfect score on only one occasion)<\/p>\n<p><b>And finally:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I only recently found the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCdW1zR19oxD3JAPmkYWdU5g\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Society of Antiquaries You Tube channel<\/a> and I&#8217;ve embedded one of their recent videos of a short informal gallery talk about Tudor portrait sets. There are more at the channel including a few about their portrait of Richard III.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RIalWi2g_DM?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\/RIalWi2g_DM?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for a bunch of links this week! The King Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester opened this weekend, so here are a few articles related to that: * Richard III: A look inside Leicester&#8217;s new visitor centre &#8211; This link from the Leicester Mercury has a short video&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/sunday-short-takes-150\/\">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":[6,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news","category-art-news","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202","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=9202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}