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On this day in history events for week 21-27 September.
[Read More...]Historian Gareth Russell is the editor of our monthly Tudor Life magazine and he’s been working hard on scheduling expert articles and also expert talks for the next few months. We are thrilled to bits that so many historians and authors want to be involved in the Tudor Society by offering their knowledge and expertise to our members – a big thank you to them and to all our members too for your continued support.
Contributors to Tudor Life magazine in the coming months include:
[Read More...]John Dee, astrologer, mathematician, alchemist, antiquary, spy, philosopher, geographer and adviser to Elizabeth I and various influential statesmen during her reign, was born in London on 13th July 1527.
[Read More...]Here’s the latest magazine with all our regular items and contributors plus lots of fascinating articles about people and places from the Tudor period.
[Read More...]On 13th May at 7pm, Dr Elizabeth Goldring will be talking about her book Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art: Painting and Patronage at the Court of Elizabeth I at Lord Leycester's Hospital in Warwick, UK.
Tickets can be purchased at Warwick Books, 24 Market Place, Warwick for £3.50 (£2 concessions). You can find out more about the talk at www.warwickbooks.net/events/meet-the-author-with-warwick-books-elizabeth-goldring/.
Elizabeth has written a wonderful article on Robert Dudley for the June issue of Tudor Life magazine.
As today is the anniversary of the death of eighty-two year-old Blanche Parry, chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber, on 12 February 1590, I thought I would share an article written by Sarah Rochel back in 2009 for The Elizabeth Files.
[Read More...]Historian Dr Elizabeth Goldring, an expert on Robert Dudley from the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, has recently participated in an interesting interview on BBC radio about some Warwickshire Tudor sites such as Kenilworth Castle. It's only online for just over two more weeks, so don't miss out listening to the recording:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02g9qzl
Or listen here:
We're hoping to have either an expert chat or magazine article (or both) with Dr. Goldring, so watch out!
This week in history events for 6th to 12th October.
[Read More...]On this day in Tudor history, 28th July, Thomas Cromwell suffered a rather botched execution; Walter Hungerford, Baron Hungerford, was executed for magic and “detestable vice and sin”; and Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard…
[Read More...]On this day in Tudor history, 13th July, the famous multi-talented John Dee was born; members of the new Queen Jane’s council were meeting with the imperial ambassadors; and poet and courtier Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, died at Penshurst…
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