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Enjoy this 13 question quiz on Henry VII.
[Read More...]In my Claire Chats video a couple of weeks ago I talked about pets and animals in Tudor paintings so just had to share this article by Christina Hartweg:
The Peace Portrait: The Significance of the Little Dog - http://allthingsrobertdudley.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/the-peace-portrait-the-significance-of-the-little-dog/
What a beautiful painting and an interesting article.
In this week’s Claire Chats video I talk about what historian Steve Gunn unearthed when he investigated coroners’ inquest reports from the Tudor period. Some really sad accidental deaths!
[Read More...]Congratulations to Lori Adams who has won this month's Tudor Life giveaway.
Lori has won copies of Jessie Childs' God's Traitors, Anne Clinard Barnhill's Queen Elizabeth's Daughter, Robert Stephen Parry's Elizabeth the Virgin Queen and the Men who Loved Her, and Melanie V. Taylor's The Truth of the Line. I hope you enjoy these books Lori!
There will be a book giveaway every month and a winner will be picked at random from Tudor Society members.
In this week’s Claire Chats video I talk about some of the pets the Tudors were known to have.
[Read More...]The very first issue of Tudor Life, the Tudor Society’s monthly magazine, is a special on Elizabeth I to commemorate her birthday on 7 September 1533.
[Read More...]Happy 481st birthday to Queen Elizabeth I who was born at 3pm on 7th September 1533. She was, of course, the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
[Read More...]Two Archbishops to help lay King Richard III to Rest – Press statement by the Anglican Diocese of Leicester in conjunction with the Catholic Diocese of Nottingham – released Sunday 7 September 2014
[Read More...]Enjoy this special article written by Melanie V. Taylor, author of "The Truth of the Line", who runs www.TheTruthOfTheLine.co.uk and is an art historian. Melanie is a regular contributor to the Tudor Society's Tudor Life magazine.
This report is entitled "Who painted Lady Katherine Grey and her son Edward?", and is a fascinating insight into Tudor art and how even today it can be difficult to attribute an artist to a portrait.
Melanie Taylor SPECIAL ARTICLE - Who painted Lady Katherine Grey and her son Edward
Enjoy!
Claire talks about the strange relationship between Thomas Seymour and Elizabeth I, when she was a teenager. Strange things happened … or did they?
[Read More...]Claire Ridgway speaks about Anne Boleyn’s relationship with Henry Percy
[Read More...]Claire Ridgway talks about Anne Boleyn’s relationship with Thomas Wyatt
[Read More...]A video answering the question “would Richard III’s spinal deformity have prevented him from leading the charge at the Battle of Bosworth?”
[Read More...]A series of videos from the University of Leicester about the Richard III dig, the discovery of Richard III and the subsequent results of tests on the remains.
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