#tudorhistory — Public Fediverse posts
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#OTD in 1542: Robert Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex, died at Chelsea. From a father accused of treason to Henry VIII’s trusted Lord Great Chamberlain, he survived the dangers of Tudor politics in remarkable style.
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#OTD in 1542: Robert Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex, died at Chelsea. From a father accused of treason to Henry VIII’s trusted Lord Great Chamberlain, he survived the dangers of Tudor politics in remarkable style.
https://www.tudorsociety.com/robert-radcliffe-1st-earl-of-essex-quite-the-tudor-survivor/ -
#OTD in 1542: Robert Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex, died at Chelsea. From a father accused of treason to Henry VIII’s trusted Lord Great Chamberlain, he survived the dangers of Tudor politics in remarkable style.
https://www.tudorsociety.com/robert-radcliffe-1st-earl-of-essex-quite-the-tudor-survivor/ -
On this day in 1555, Queen Mary I’s Parliament passed the Second Statute of Repeal, restoring papal authority and undoing decades of reform.
For three brief years, England was Catholic again.
Read more 👉 https://www.tudorsociety.com/mary-i-turns-back-the-clock-decades/ -
On this day in 1555, Queen Mary I’s Parliament passed the Second Statute of Repeal, restoring papal authority and undoing decades of reform.
For three brief years, England was Catholic again.
Read more 👉 https://www.tudorsociety.com/mary-i-turns-back-the-clock-decades/ -
On this day in 1555, Queen Mary I’s Parliament passed the Second Statute of Repeal, restoring papal authority and undoing decades of reform.
For three brief years, England was Catholic again.
Read more 👉 https://www.tudorsociety.com/mary-i-turns-back-the-clock-decades/ -
On 12 Oct 1537, Jane Seymour gave Henry VIII his longed-for son, but within 12 days, the queen was dead.
Was it childbed fever, food poisoning, or something else entirely?
I look at what really killed her...
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/jane-seymours-death-what-killed-her/
#sixwives #janeseymour #tudors #tudorhistory -
On 12 Oct 1537, Jane Seymour gave Henry VIII his longed-for son, but within 12 days, the queen was dead.
Was it childbed fever, food poisoning, or something else entirely?
I look at what really killed her...
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/jane-seymours-death-what-killed-her/
#sixwives #janeseymour #tudors #tudorhistory -
On 12 Oct 1537, Jane Seymour gave Henry VIII his longed-for son, but within 12 days, the queen was dead.
Was it childbed fever, food poisoning, or something else entirely?
I look at what really killed her...
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/jane-seymours-death-what-killed-her/
#sixwives #janeseymour #tudors #tudorhistory -
University of Exeter: National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’. “A digital team led by Exeter’s Dr Charlotte Tupman, of the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology, will transform the 500-year old Latin manuscripts into modern, searchable records, translated, analysed and in each case linked to current maps using […]
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New interview! I talk with historian Elizabeth Norton about her book Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy. From Empress Matilda to modern leaders—power, language & legacy across 5 millennia. #TudorHistory #WomenInHistory
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Is Anne Boleyn really buried in the Tower of London?
Sources say the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, but legends place her in Norfolk, Suffolk… and even a heart burial elsewhere.
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/is-anne-boleyn-really-buried-at-the-tower-of-london/
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Is Anne Boleyn really buried in the Tower of London?
Sources say the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, but legends place her in Norfolk, Suffolk… and even a heart burial elsewhere.
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/is-anne-boleyn-really-buried-at-the-tower-of-london/
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Is Anne Boleyn really buried in the Tower of London?
Sources say the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, but legends place her in Norfolk, Suffolk… and even a heart burial elsewhere.
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/is-anne-boleyn-really-buried-at-the-tower-of-london/
#AnneBoleyn #TudorHistory #TowerOfLondon -
I sat down with novelist Natalia Richards to talk all things Anne Boleyn—from her early life to the real woman behind the myths. Plus, Kate Bush, writing rituals, and more!
https://bit.ly/4lf9R1z
#AnneBoleyn #TudorHistory #HistoricalFiction #NataliaRichards #ClaireRidgway -
I sat down with novelist Natalia Richards to talk all things Anne Boleyn—from her early life to the real woman behind the myths. Plus, Kate Bush, writing rituals, and more!
https://bit.ly/4lf9R1z
#AnneBoleyn #TudorHistory #HistoricalFiction #NataliaRichards #ClaireRidgway -
I sat down with novelist Natalia Richards to talk all things Anne Boleyn—from her early life to the real woman behind the myths. Plus, Kate Bush, writing rituals, and more!
https://bit.ly/4lf9R1z
#AnneBoleyn #TudorHistory #HistoricalFiction #NataliaRichards #ClaireRidgway -
On this day in 1554, Prince Philip of Spain landed in England to marry Queen Mary I — with 1000s of men and an all important dance master in tow!
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On this day in 1554, Prince Philip of Spain landed in England to marry Queen Mary I — with 1000s of men and an all important dance master in tow!
https://bit.ly/44HKqAI -
On this day in 1554, Prince Philip of Spain landed in England to marry Queen Mary I — with 1000s of men and an all important dance master in tow!
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Powdered glass, horse bones… and invisibility?
William Neville, Tudor poet & courtier, was accused of sorcery and trying to vanish from sight!
Discover his bizarre story - https://bit.ly/44NJgSS
#TudorHistory #WilliamNeville #TudorTok #TudorSociety #ClaireRidgway #OnThisDay #MagicInHistory -
Powdered glass, horse bones… and invisibility?
William Neville, Tudor poet & courtier, was accused of sorcery and trying to vanish from sight!
Discover his bizarre story - https://bit.ly/44NJgSS
#TudorHistory #WilliamNeville #TudorTok #TudorSociety #ClaireRidgway #OnThisDay #MagicInHistory -
Powdered glass, horse bones… and invisibility?
William Neville, Tudor poet & courtier, was accused of sorcery and trying to vanish from sight!
Discover his bizarre story - https://bit.ly/44NJgSS
#TudorHistory #WilliamNeville #TudorTok #TudorSociety #ClaireRidgway #OnThisDay #MagicInHistory -
👑 Two sisters. One king.
A story of power, scandal, and legacy—unfolding in a brand-new online Tudor event.
📜 Talks, Zooms, and Boleyn drama await...
🎟️ Already half full—secure your place now!
🔗 Register at https://claireridgway.com/events/sisters/#AnneBoleyn #MaryBoleyn #TudorHistory #HistoryEvent #ClaireRidgway #BoleynSisters
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👑 Two sisters. One king.
A story of power, scandal, and legacy—unfolding in a brand-new online Tudor event.
📜 Talks, Zooms, and Boleyn drama await...
🎟️ Already half full—secure your place now!
🔗 Register at https://claireridgway.com/events/sisters/#AnneBoleyn #MaryBoleyn #TudorHistory #HistoryEvent #ClaireRidgway #BoleynSisters
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👑 Two sisters. One king.
A story of power, scandal, and legacy—unfolding in a brand-new online Tudor event.
📜 Talks, Zooms, and Boleyn drama await...
🎟️ Already half full—secure your place now!
🔗 Register at https://claireridgway.com/events/sisters/#AnneBoleyn #MaryBoleyn #TudorHistory #HistoryEvent #ClaireRidgway #BoleynSisters
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On 8 May 1536, with Anne Boleyn’s fall underway, ambitious courtiers circled like vultures—eager to snatch up the offices and estates of the accused men. Opportunism at its Tudor finest… #AnneBoleyn #TudorHistory #OTD
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Photos from a trip this past week to the incredible Mary Rose Museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Life goal achieved! Always go for the guided tour - ours was amazing.
#NavalHistory / #MaryRose / #TudorHistory / #Portsmouth
https://www.flickr.com/photos/avail/albums/72177720324830144/
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A Forgotten Tudor Patron
She was a Spencer, the wife of a Boleyn descendant, and a patron to Elizabethan greats like Edmund Spenser & John Dowland—yet history has overlooked Elizabeth Carey, Lady Hunsdon...
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#OTD in 1556, Protestant lawyer Bartholomew Green was burnt at the stake alongside six others.
His crime? Unshakable faith and defiance of Queen Mary I’s laws.
Discover the courageous story of his final stand...
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#OTD in 1556, Protestant lawyer Bartholomew Green was burnt at the stake alongside six others.
His crime? Unshakable faith and defiance of Queen Mary I’s laws.
Discover the courageous story of his final stand...
https://bit.ly/4aGhnyP -
#OTD in 1556, Protestant lawyer Bartholomew Green was burnt at the stake alongside six others.
His crime? Unshakable faith and defiance of Queen Mary I’s laws.
Discover the courageous story of his final stand...
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Did Archbishop Cranmer keep his secret wife in a ventilated chest?
Well, yes, according to his Catholic detractors!
But was there any truth in their claims, and where does the story come from?
https://bit.ly/40Qxwi4
#TudorHistory #ThomasCranmer #HistoryMystery #TheTudors -
Did Archbishop Cranmer keep his secret wife in a ventilated chest?
Well, yes, according to his Catholic detractors!
But was there any truth in their claims, and where does the story come from?
https://bit.ly/40Qxwi4
#TudorHistory #ThomasCranmer #HistoryMystery #TheTudors -
Did Archbishop Cranmer keep his secret wife in a ventilated chest?
Well, yes, according to his Catholic detractors!
But was there any truth in their claims, and where does the story come from?
https://bit.ly/40Qxwi4
#TudorHistory #ThomasCranmer #HistoryMystery #TheTudors -
#OTD in 1556, imperial ambassador Eustace Chapuys died. Known for his daring plans to save Princess Mary, and his loyalty to Catherine of Aragon, Chapuys risked everything to stand against Henry VIII’s wrath.
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#OTD in 1556, imperial ambassador Eustace Chapuys died. Known for his daring plans to save Princess Mary, and his loyalty to Catherine of Aragon, Chapuys risked everything to stand against Henry VIII’s wrath.
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#OTD in 1556, imperial ambassador Eustace Chapuys died. Known for his daring plans to save Princess Mary, and his loyalty to Catherine of Aragon, Chapuys risked everything to stand against Henry VIII’s wrath.
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The Geraldines: An Experiment in Irish Government 1169-1601, by Brian Fitzgerald
Although it's partisan, it wears its heart on its jacket and is rather endearing.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-geraldines-an-experiment-in-irish-government-1169-1601-by-brian-fitzgerald/
#Uncategorized #Bookblog2024 #TudorHistory #TudorIreland #WorldIreland -
The Tudor Discovery of Ireland, by Christopher Maginn and Steven G. Ellis
Deep analysis of a 15-folio manuscript about Ireland, preserved in Hatfield House
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-tudor-discovery-of-ireland-by-christopher-maginn-and-steven-g-ellis/
#Uncategorized #Bookblog2024 #TudorHistory #TudorIreland -
Tudor Court Culture, eds. Thomas Betteridge & Anna Riehl
Essays on how the court actually functioned under the Tudor monarchs; standout piece on royal progresses.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/tudor-court-culture-eds-thomas-betteridge-anna-riehl/
#Uncategorized #Bookblog2024 #TudorHistory -
“I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”
#OnThisDay, 19 Aug 1588*, Queen Elizabeth I of England addresses the troops at Tilbury as they prepare to defend England against the Spanish Armada.Her reported speech is best seen as propaganda establishing her as a symbolic Britannia. https://www.elizabethfiles.com/the-spanish-armada-8-elizabeths-tilbury-speech/4065/
*date converted from OS calendar
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #TudorHistory #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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Discovering Tudor London: A Journey Back in Time, by Natalie Grueninger
A breezy gazetteer, which assumes that the reader already has knowledge of the Tudor period.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/discovering-tudor-london-a-journey-back-in-time-by-natalie-grueninger/
#Uncategorized #Bookblog2024 #TudorHistory -
Another #Kentwell photograph for #throwbackthursday
Blowing bubbles by the moat with the children. I think the Tudor year may be 1588, but am not sure.
Photograph by Paul Sillence
#Tudor
#tudors
#kentwellhall
#Elizabethan
#elizabethancostume
#16thCentury
#16thcenturyfashion
#tudorfashion
#bubbles #bubbleblowing #blowingbubbles #tudorchildren #throwbackthursdays #histodon #histodons #reenactment #historical #history #tudorhistory -
A most royall song of the life and death of our late renowned princesse Queene Elizabeth.
To the tune of the Ladies fall
From A crowne garland of goulden roses, Richard Johnson, 1612
A #ballad about #ElizabethI who became queen #onthisday in 1558.
#otd #tudor #tudors #historyballads #tudorhistory #elizabethan #earlymodern #earlymusic #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #histodons
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A most royall song of the life and death of our late renowned princesse Queene Elizabeth.
To the tune of the Ladies fall
From A crowne garland of goulden roses, Richard Johnson, 1612
A #ballad about #ElizabethI who became queen #onthisday in 1558.
#otd #tudor #tudors #historyballads #tudorhistory #elizabethan #earlymodern #earlymusic #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #histodons
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A most royall song of the life and death of our late renowned princesse Queene Elizabeth.
To the tune of the Ladies fall
From A crowne garland of goulden roses, Richard Johnson, 1612
A #ballad about #ElizabethI who became queen #onthisday in 1558.
#otd #tudor #tudors #historyballads #tudorhistory #elizabethan #earlymodern #earlymusic #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #histodons
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Historian recreates Thomas Cromwell’s London mansion in exquisite detail - Enlarge / Artist's reconstruction of Thomas Cromwell's mansion on Throgmorton Str... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1782878 #gaming&culture #thomascromwell #tudorhistory #archaeology #wolfhall #science #history
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A most royall song of the life and death of our late renowned princesse Queene Elizabeth.
To the tune of the Ladies fall
From A crowne garland of goulden roses, Richard Johnson, 1612
A #ballad about #ElizabethI who became queen #onthisday in 1558.
#otd #tudor #tudors #historyballads #tudorhistory #elizabethan #earlymodern #earlymusic #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #histodons
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A most royall song of the life and death of our late renowned princesse Queene Elizabeth.
To the tune of the Ladies fall
From A crowne garland of goulden roses, Richard Johnson, 1612
A #ballad about #ElizabethI who became queen #onthisday in 1558.
#otd #tudor #tudors #historyballads #tudorhistory #elizabethan #earlymodern #earlymusic #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #histodons