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\nMedal of Anne Boleyn, the only known likeness from her lifetime and subject of the biggest Tudor news story of the past few weeks<\/i><\/p>\n
\nMedal of Anne Boleyn, the only known likeness from her lifetime and subject of the biggest Tudor news story of the past few weeks<\/i><\/p>\n
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Yes, finally, I’ve gotten around to doing another news round-up! The last few weeks have been insanely busy and therefore insanely tiring, so some things fell by the wayside (blogging, laundry, etc.) But now I’m getting caught up, so here’s a mega news dump.<\/p>\n
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The biggest ‘news’ of the past couple of weeks in the Tudor-sphere was the story about facial recognition software that was used on images of Anne Boleyn, which spawned a bunch of articles such as the two below:<\/p>\n
* Possible Anne Boleyn portrait found using facial recognition software<\/a><\/p>\n * Portraits of Anne Boleyn may not be her, say experts<\/a><\/p>\n But it didn’t take long for those knowledgeable in Anne Boleyn’s portraiture to respond with a bit more level-headed analysis than the hyperbolic headlines. A few examples of those below:<\/p>\n * Anne of the Thousand Faces<\/a> – by Roland Hui on his Tudor Faces<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n * Anne Boleyn-ollocks<\/a> – From Bendor Grosvenor on his Art History News<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n * Update on Nidd Hall Portrait and 1534 Anne Boleyn Medal<\/a> – From Claire Ridgway at The Anne Boleyn Files<\/a>, who actually contacted the project coordinator and surprise! – the press got it all wrong.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And here’s a bunch of random, interesting articles that I saved:<\/p>\n * Wolf Hall in The National Archives<\/a> – Nice compilation of documents from the UK National Archives with examples of real-life documents related to events in episodes of the Wolf Hall<\/i> series.<\/p>\n * Hampton Court’s lost apartment foundations uncovered<\/a> – A routine maintenance job at Hampton Court palace has uncovered the lost foundations of the splendid royal apartments of two ill-fated queens, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour.<\/i><\/p>\n * Skirret: the forgotten Tudor vegetable<\/a> – Wolf Hall has unearthed Tudor delights, ignored for centuries the sweet root vegetable has returned to Hampton Court<\/i><\/p>\n * Storm washes Armada wreckage on to Sligo beach<\/a><\/p>\n