Here’s the May Tudor Life magazine with a huge 57 page special on Anne Boleyn plus all our regular items and contributors!
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May 2015 Tudor Life Magazine
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The Road to Bosworth by Sarah Bryson
The Battle of Bosworth has gone down in record as one of the most pivotal battles in English history. The aftermath of the battle changed the course of England and saw a new monarch and dynasty come to the throne.
The 1st of August 1485 was to be the day that Henry Tudor would finally leave France after fourteen years of exile in Brittany and France aiming to lay claim to the English throne. He set sail from Harfleur, France accompanied by approximately 400 Englishmen, 800 Scots and approximately 1500 French troops. The exact number of French troops is hard to estimate as different reports record different numbers.
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Recent and forthcoming books Spring 2015
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In the news this week 23 – 29 March 2015
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In the news this week 16-22 March
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This week in history 16 – 22 March
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In the news this week 9-15 March
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In the news this week
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Henry VII
Henry VII was born at Pembroke Castle on the 28th January 1457. His parents were the thirteen year-old Lady Margaret Beaufort and her husband Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, who, unfortunately, had died of the plague three months before Henry’s birth.
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This week in history 26 January – 1st February
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Tudor Life December 2014
This is our BUMPER CHRISTMAS magazine, with an amazing 108 pages packed with facts, stories and fun related to the Tudor period, and of course to Christmas too!
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This week in history 17 – 23 November
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This Week in History 3 – 9 November
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This Week in History 27 October – 2 November
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This Week in History 29 September – 5 October
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Henry VII Primary Sources
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#OTD in Tudor history – 17 November
On this day in Tudor history, 17th November, Queen Mary I died at St James’s Palace, London, and her half-sister, Elizabeth, became Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth would reign for over forty-four years (1558)…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 14 November
On this day in Tudor history, 14th November, Catherine of Aragon married Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales (1501); Henry VIII may have married Anne Boleyn (1532); and an inventory was taken of Thomas Culpeper’s “goods and chattels, lands and fees” (1541)…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 11 November
#OTD in Tudor history, 11th November, the Admiral of France landed on English soil, a visit that was going to cause George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, a lot of stress (1534); and Archbishop Cranmer was instructed to move Queen Catherine Howard from Hampton Court Palace to Syon House (1541)…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 10 November
On this day in Tudor history, 10th November, privy councillor Sir Henry Wyatt, father of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, died (1536); and explorer and navigator Richard Chancellor was drowned after saving the Russian ambassador after their ship was wrecked (1556)…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 24 October
On this day in Tudor history, 24th October, Queen Jane Seymour, Henry VIII’s third wife, died at Hampton Court Palace; and John White, governor of the Roanoke Colony, returned to England after failing to find the lost colonists…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 23 October
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd October, a prior wrote a rather grovelling letter to Thomas Cromwell regarding the forthcoming dissolution of his monastery; and renowned poet, psalmodist and clergyman John Hopkins was buried at Great Waldingfield…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 21 October
On this day in Tudor history, 21st October, Henry VIII left Anne Boleyn behind in Calais to spend a few days in Boulogne with Francis I (1532); and during the Pilgrimage of Grace, Lancaster Herald encountered a group of armed peasants near Pontefract Castle…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 15 October
On this day in Tudor history, 15th October, the infant Prince Edward (Edward VI) was christened in the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace (1537); and teacher and Welsh language poet Richard Gwyn (White) was hanged, drawn and quartered for his Catholic faith (1584)…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 12 October
On this day in Tudor history, 12th October, Edward VI, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, was born (1537); and MP and administrator Lewis Owen was murdered on a Welsh mountain pass as a result of his campaign against outlaws (1555)…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 5 October
On this day in Tudor history, 5th October, Henry VIII’s daughter, two-year-old Princess Mary, became betrothed to the French dauphin; and Lord Protector Somerset ordered a gathering of men at Hampton Court Palace to protect him and the young King Edward VI…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 2 October
On this day in Tudor history, Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, set sail from Dover to travel to France to marry Louis XII of France; and reformer and Bible translator William Tyndale’s book “The Obedience of a Christian Man” was published, a book which Anne Boleyn shared with Henry VIII…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 30 September
On this day in Tudor history, 30th September, a victorious Henry VIII returned to England after the French surrender of Boulogne; and Mary I’s coronation procession took place in London…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 27 September
On this day in Tudor history, 27th September, John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and first husband of Margaret Beaufort, was born; and fifteen-year-old Catherine of Aragon set sail for England from Laredo, Spain, for her marriage to Arthur Tudor…
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#OTD in Tudor history – 18 September
On this day in Tudor history, Henry VIII rode triumphantly through the streets of Boulogne after the French surrendered it to him; and Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, a prospective bridegroom for both of Henry VIII’s daughters, died…
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