A Tudor Life in the Time of Plague
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/tudor-life-time-plague
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50082358
#HackerNews #TudorHistory #PlagueEra #HistoryToday #MedievalLife #PandemicStories
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Who Wrote Elizabeth I's Most Scathing Letters?
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881692
#HackerNews #ElizabethI #Letters #TudorHistory #ScathingCorrespondence #RoyalSecrets #HistoricalResearch
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/hrt/827/ Inside the English Heritage gem 1 hour from Hertfordshire with a gold-plated bathroom #ArtDeco #BeautifulGardens #ElthamPalace #EnglishHeritage #Hertfordshire #TudorHistory #VirginiaCourtauld
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Henry VIII wanted England’s greatest tomb. But his wars drained the treasury. He died before it was finished. Today, just a floor slab remains.
#TudorHistory #AncientOrigins #HistoryFacts #RoyalHistory #DarkHistory
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The Sweating Sickness: The Mysterious Tudor Epidemic That Killed Thousands #HistoryMystery #DarkHistory #TudorHistory #DiseaseHistory #DidYouKnow https://www.gsnsp.com/sweating-sickness-tudor-disease-explained/
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Edward Underhill, royal bodyguard to four Tudor monarchs, survived war, prison, religious persecution, and court intrigue—leaving behind a rare firsthand account of loyalty, danger, and survival inside England’s deadliest court.
#TudorHistory #HenryVIII #QueenMary #ElizabethI #HiddenHistory
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Tudor Expert Reacts To ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Movie
Fact vs. Hollywood fiction. Renowned historians unpick the dramatic life of Mary Stuart, exploring whether she and Elizabeth I ever truly met and how sexual politics and espionage were distilled into the blockbuster film.
#MaryQueenOfScots #TudorHistory #ElizabethI #MovieReview #HistoryExpert #BritishHistory
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It’s December already, and that means Tudor Advent fun begins!
Enjoy a new historical treat every day until Christmas Eve on The Anne Boleyn Files (or on YouTube!).
Start the countdown here:
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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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On this day in Tudor history, 13 Nov 1537, Queen Jane Seymour, Henry VIII’s beloved third wife & mother of Edward VI, was laid to rest.
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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.
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#OTD in Tudor history, 4 November 1551, theologian and scholar John Redman died of consumption. He served both Henry VIII and Edward VI, striving to reconcile faith, scholarship and conscience in a divided England.
https://www.tudorsociety.com/john-redman-theologian-royal-chaplain-and-scholar/
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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/
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#OTD in 1538, Prior Thomas Goldwell wrote to Cromwell as his monastery faced dissolution, begging to keep his “poor lodging” for life.
Behind every dissolved abbey were people left wondering how to live in a changed world.
https://www.tudorsociety.com/the-human-cost-of-the-dissolution/
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#OTD in Tudor history, 21 Oct 1554, John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick, died at Penshurst—just days after release from the Tower.
Son of the Duke of Northumberland, brother of Guildford Dudley, his glittering rise ended with Lady Jane Grey’s fall.
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Early Bird ends TOMORROW!
Join “The Other Tudors: The Forgotten Figures Who Shaped a Dynasty” — 9 days of live online talks (7–15 Dec) exploring the Tudors beyond Henry & Elizabeth.
🎟 Save $50 with code EBOTUDORS https://bit.ly/4omsuTe
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On this day in 1594, Cardinal William Allen died in exile in Rome.
To English Catholics, he was a shepherd who kept the old faith alive.
To Elizabeth I’s government, he was a traitor who backed the Spanish Armada.Man of faith, conspirator—or both?
https://bit.ly/47cgIE2#TudorHistory #ElizabethI #WilliamAllen #Reformation #CatholicHistory #OnThisDay
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#OTD in 1549, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector, woke as the most powerful man in Tudor England — and went to bed a denounced traitor.
He had ruled in all but name since 1547. So what brought his fall?
https://www.tudorsociety.com/the-fall-of-lord-protector-somerset/
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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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New interview: I talk to novelist Wendy Johnson (Looking for Richard) about The Traitor’s Son, Richard III’s boyhood, myth vs evidence, key sources & must-visit sites, plus teasers for Books 2 & 3. https://www.tudorsociety.com/from-looking-for-richard-to-writing-richard-iii-wendy-johnson-interview/
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Henry VIII broke from Rome, shut the monasteries & crowned himself Supreme Head… so he was Protestant?
Nope!
He died a Catholic. Find out why...
https://bit.ly/4gsykzQ
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Could you get away with murder at Henry VIII’s court? In 1532, Pennington’s killers did—claiming self-defence, paying £1,000, then thriving.
I dissect the fight, sanctuary loopholes, and Cromwell’s role.
https://bit.ly/4p7o2Zx
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#OTD (4 Sept 1550), Sir Thomas Paston—Privy Chamber gentleman to Henry VIII & Edward VI—died. From the famous Paston Letters family, he kept the Greenwich armoury, was knighted after Boulogne, sat as MP, and helped quell Kett’s Rebellion.
https://bit.ly/3I6FexI
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On 2/3 Sept 1507, Thomas Savage, Archbishop of York, died at Cawood.
He was more than a churchman, he was Henry VII’s trusted diplomat & northern power-broker.
https://bit.ly/archbishopsavage
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OUT TODAY! 📖 On This Day in Tudor History III — 365 bite-size Tudor events for your daily history fix. Royal births, dramatic arrests, mysterious deaths… Dive in: https://mybook.to/onthisday3 #TudorHistory #OnThisDay #BookRelease
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Meet Dorcas Martin: Tudor translator & bookseller whose work appeared in Monument of Matrones (1582), the first English anthology of women’s writing.
https://bit.ly/dorcasmartin
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#OTD 29 Aug 1583, Tudor adventurer Maurice Browne went down with his ship, the Delight, on Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s doomed voyage.
A courtier, spy & captain, he chose death over escape...
https://bit.ly/mauricebrowne
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#OTD, 27 Aug 1610, Lady Anne Bacon was laid to rest at. Daughter of scholar Anthony Cooke, wife of Nicholas Bacon & mother of Anthony & Francis Bacon — but remarkable in her own right as a learned translator & scholar.
https://bit.ly/ladybacon
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#OTD in 1570: Bishop Thomas Thirlby died under house arrest.
He’d risen to become the first Bishop of Westminster and a privy councillor…
But he’s also remembered for annoying martyr Thomas Bilney with his recorder practice at Cambridge!
https://www.tudorsociety.com/bishop-thomas-thirlby/
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Born #OTD in 1526, Mildred Cecil (née Cooke) wasn’t just William Cecil’s wife—she was one of the most learned women of Tudor England. Scholar, translator, court insider, and humanist powerhouse in her own right...
https://bit.ly/45BdYAB
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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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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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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/
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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/
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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 -
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History, by Elizabeth Norton
There are some very good bits here; the chapters on crime and religion in particular are fertile ground for the imagination.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-hidden-lives-of-tudor-women-a-social-history-by-elizabeth-norton/
#Uncategorized #Bookblog2023 #TudorHistory -
"Village’s amateur archaeologists find lost Tudor palace in back garden
Collyweston Palace, home of Henry VII’s mother, uncovered despite ‘no money, no expertise, no plans’"
#histodons
#archaeology
#Tudors
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#OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.
During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.
We’ve written about her predecessor, Jane Grey, and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: https://carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-grey-history-a-tudor-succession/
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People today: We abbreviate by cutting out vowels
Tudors: We abbreviate by cutting out any random letters we feel like - vowels, consonants, its all fair game. We might just give you the first and last letter of a word! Enjoy working it out from context!
#Tudors
#History
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“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/
#WomenInHistory #TudorHistory #EnglishHistory #Elizabethan
*date converted from OS calendar
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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 -
#OTD in Tudor history, 21st March 1556, Thomas Cranmer, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was burnt at the stake in Oxford...
#tudor #tudorhistory #thomascranmer #archbishopcranmer #martyr #protestantmartyr
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#OnThisDay, 1 Feb 1587, Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her first cousin once removed Mary, Queen of Scotland.
Despite what movies and plays would have you believe, the neighbouring queens had never met.
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My first book, Educating the Tudors came out a little early and is now available!🖋📚 #tudorhistory #histodons #writingcommunity https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Educating-the-Tudors-Hardback/p/22338
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Oh no. Oh no no no no no no no no no no no.
Netflix gave that new Anne Boleyn thing the "Persuasion" treatment. I am dying from the cringe.
#history #anneboleyn #henryviii #englishhistory #tudorhistory #16thcentury #netflix -
#OTD in Tudor history, 23rd November 1598, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, a man named Edward Squire was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.
The scrivener and sailor was executed for treason after being accused of plotting to poison Elizabeth I’s saddle and a chair used by her favourite, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
Edward Squire had ended up in Seville after being captured by Spaniards while on a voyage with Sir Francis Drake. There, it was alleged that he plotted against the queen and Essex with Jesuits. He confessed under torture but claimed his innocence at his trial and before he died.
What happened and how did the Protestant Edward Squire end up being accused of conspiring with Jesuits against his queen?
