The Tudor Peasant
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My Name is Jane…Boleyn
“War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming—making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn’t need to hate. That’s why we still nee... Read More...
The Princess of Mirrors
On the twelfth day of Christmas C.S. and Olga Hughes bring you a Tudor fairy tale
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The Light in the Labyrinth – Christmas at Greenwich
On the third day of Christmas Wendy J. Dunn shares a tale of Christmas at Greenwich from her novel 'The Light in the Labyrinth'.
My two Anne Boleyn novels, Dear Heart, How Like You This? and The Light in the... Read More...
A Tudor Christmas by Sarah Bryson
On the first day of Christmas Sarah Bryson introduces us to Christmas with the Tudors!
Tudor Christmas by Sarah Bryson
Christmas during the Tudor period, especially during the reign of Henry VIII, was very di... Read More...
Elizabeth Norton’s ‘The Lives of Tudor Women’ Book Tour – The Seven Ages of Women
Elizabeth Norton has brought us intriguing and compelling historical studies and biographies, looking at both the famous and infamous Queens of England, the consorts of King Henry VIII, his mistress and the mot... Read More...
The Maligned Lady Rochford – An Interview and Cover Reveal with Adrienne Dillard
Nothing remains of Jane Boleyn. We do not know what she looked like, where she is buried, and we have rarely seen a word that she ever spoke recorded by anyone. Jane was an unimportant woman, yet she once walke... Read More...
George Boleyn; Arrogant?
Couple of guys (not actually Mark Smeaton and George Boleyn)
My name is George Boleyn,
And I'd like to set things straight;
That I'm really not a monster,
And in fact I'm rather great.
I'm witty, bright a... Read More...
Henry VII
I come from west of England;
That peninsula called Wales.
I'm stronger than a bunch of leeks;
In truth as hard as nails.
So I started up an army
To defeat that mad King Dickie,
As I heard he'd killed his ... Read More...
Edward Seymour
I have a little nephew;
Eddie is his name.
I love my little nephew,
Who provides reflected fame.
My nephew's King of England,
Although he's only nine.
So I'll rule through his childhood,
Which I th... Read More...
Cromwell’s Lament
Picture: Thomas Cromwell by David Levine. Originally appeared in The New York Review of Books, April 6, 1978, accompanying The New History of England.
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Yea Olde Worlde Uxoricide
There comes a time in every homicidal egotistical Monarch‘s life when he decides on uxoricide. That's killing your wife by the way, and before you think I'm clever I admit that I had to look it up on the intern... Read More...
Respecting The Dead
It was in the fictional programme The Tudors that George Boleyn was first depicted as a rapist. He brutally raped his wife anally on their wedding night. In this same programme George was also depicted as being... Read More...
