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22 June – The Execution of Bishop Fisher
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Celebrate Summer with Mary and Elizabeth
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21 June – Henry VIII travels to the Tower
On this day in Tudor history, 21st June 1509, King Henry VIII travelled from Greenwich to the Tower of London. Why was England’s new king going to the Tower of London?
Find out in this #TudorHistoryShorts video…
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20 June – Murder or Suicide?
On this day in Tudor history, the night of 20th/21st June 1585, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland, died at the Tower of London.
Was his death murder or suicide? And if it was murder, why?
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Scandalous Tudor Characters Word Search
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Information Circulation and Queen Elizabeth I – a documentary
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Teasel’s Tudor Trivia – Books on the Tudor Kings and Queens
In this latest edition of Teasel’s Tudor Trivia, Tudor experts, historian Claire Ridgway and her researcher, Teasel the rescue dog, introduce their top picks for non-fiction books on the Tudor kings and queens.
The books featured are all excellent reads and are well-referenced – perfect for those just wanting to know more about the monarch or those who are using them for research.
Please do share in the comments if you have a favourite book on the Tudor monarchs.
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19 June – Mary, Queen of Scots gives birth to a son called Charles
On this day in Tudor history, on 19th June 1566, in Scotland, Mary, Queen of Scots gave birth to a baby boy who would grow up to be King James VI of Scotland and King James I of England. He was baptised Charles James though.
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18 June – Catherine of Aragon protests
On this day in Tudor history, 18th June 1529, Catherine of Aragon made her protest at the Blackfriars legatine court. What was she protesting about? What were the grounds of her appeal?
Find out in today’s #TudorHistoryShorts video…
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Border Reivers – Julian Humphrys
Learn about the border reivers who made the border between Scotland and England a very dangerous place during the Tudor period in this wonderful Friday video by our battlefield expert, Julian Humphrys.
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17 June – Condemned to death but thankfully pardoned
On this day in Tudor history, 17th June 1551, Sir George Blage died a natural death in Edward VI’s reign.
Blage was fortunate to die such a death as he’d been condemned to death in Henry VIII’s reign.
Find out more about him in this TudorHistoryShorts talk…
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16 June – A scandalous earl dies of gangrene
On this day in Tudor history, 16th June 1614, Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, died of gangrene following surgery on his thigh.
Find out more about this Tudor earl, and how he was involved in a murder plot, in today’s #TudorHistoryShorts talk…
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15 June – Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII’s illegitimate son
15th June 1519 is the traditional birthdate of King Henry VIII’s illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy.
Find out a bit more about Fitzroy in this latest edition of TudorHistoryShorts…
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The marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon Part 1 – talk by Claire Ridgway
Here is the video of the Facebook Live talk I did for Tudor Society members in the private members-only group.
In it, I look at the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, from its very beginnings, with their betrothal in Henry VII’s reign, to 1527, when Henry applied for a dispensation to marry Anne Boleyn.
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14 June – Friar Peto
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21 Interesting Facts about Henry VIII
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13 June – George Neville, a man with a very mixed court career
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June Feast Days Crossword Puzzle
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12 June – Richard Rich, lawyer and torturer
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11 June – Sir Anthony Cooke
11th June 1576 was the death date of Sir Anthony Cooke, a well-known Tudor humanist and educator with famous daughters.
Find out more about this Tudor man in today’s edition of #TudorHistoryShorts…
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10 June – Execution by starvation
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Sir Richard Hawkins (1560-1622)
Richard Hawkins was born in Plymouth and was the only son of Sir John Hawkins and his first wife, Katherine Gonson. His mother was the daughter of Benjamin Gonson, the treasurer of the navy, the position his father John took in 1577, so the seafaring life was in his blood. Little is known regarding Richard’s education; it isn’t clear whether he attended university or an inn of the court, but he had reasonable fluency in Latin and the educational skills expected from gentlemen at the time. Therefore, although he grew up among ships and seamen, he will have enjoyed a period of schooling, presumably in Plymouth. A lot of what we know about Richard Hawkins comes from his autobiography ‘Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, knight in his voyage into the southern sea, A.D 1593, which he wrote until around 1599. Although written by Richard himself, it isn’t easy to know whether all the details are correct.
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9 June – From traitor to sword bearer
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Artists in the Spotlight – Kristina
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June 2021 at the Tudor Society!
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8 June – Mary is very wrong
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7 June – The execution of Elizabeth I’s physician
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6 June – William Hunnis, a man lucky to die a natural death
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Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon Crossword Puzzle
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5 June – Robert Devereux is in trouble
