Posted by admin in History News on 06 29th, 2009 | No Comments
New Museum for the Mary Rose
A new high tech museum dedicated to the unseen treasures of the Mary Rose will be built at Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard hopefully in time for the 2012 Olympic games. “The Mary Rose was the pride of her day, being the first vessel capable of firing broadside. It went down in the Solent (strait...
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Posted by admin in Travel on 06 25th, 2009 | 4 Comments
Tudor History Tours
Check out Tudor History Tours! This site offers a variety of Tudor History related tours in the UK, with 5 day and 7 day packages. What a wonderful idea and I totally would like to do it at some point, if I can find people to go with!
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Posted by admin in Events on 06 22nd, 2009 | No Comments
Tudor River pageant
A Tudor River pageant took place this past Saturday, in celebration of the 500th anniversary weekend of Henry’s coronation. It starts from the Tower of London and goes down the Thames and ends up at Hampton Court. “As part of the Living Weekend of re-enactments planned in conjunction with...
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Posted by admin in Events, History News on 06 15th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Acton Court opens to public
A house where Henry VIII once stayed is now open to the public. “The house offers rare examples of 16th century royal décor as the west wing was added in 1535 to welcome the king and his second wife Anne Boleyn. It was lavishly decorated to show that the owners of Acton Court, the Poyntz family,...
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Posted by admin in History News on 06 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Metal Detector finds coin from Elizabeth era
Some 75 year old man, with his metal detector, found a sixpence coin from the era of Elizabeth’s reign. It was found in a pasture in East Surrey. Apparently it’s not valued very high and the man is allowed to keep it. Read more: Metal detector unearths 400-year-old sixpence in grazing land
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Posted by admin in Special Days on 06 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
Book of Common Prayer Marks its 460th Birthday!
Book of Common Prayer Celebrates its 460th birthday! Info below is according to Virtueonline (such a random website), “It wasn’t until 1549, two years after Henry VIII’s death, when Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, is believed to have written the Book of Common Prayer, the...
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Posted by admin in Special Days on 06 1st, 2009 | 3 Comments
On this day…
On this day in 1533.. - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was crowned as queen consort. On an unrelated note, here’s an interesting article about Whitehall Palace. Briefly discusses Wolsey.
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