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Posted by happyhelen in Book News, Misc on 02 24th, 2010 | No Comments

History Today has this great article on Katherine Parr, written by Linda Porter. Porter has a book coming out in the UK in March. Excerpt: “Katherine has been described as the queen who came from nowhere, yet her pedigree was similar to that of Henry’s other English queens and she was well...

Posted by happyhelen in Misc on 01 25th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Catherine Howard shoes

Look at these shoes! Look at this website! It has other funny Tudor items like this as well! Zazzle

Posted by happyhelen in Misc on 12 20th, 2009 | No Comments

King’s College Chapel

An article about Kings College from the Wall Street Journal- Excerpt: After founding King’s College in 1441, King Henry VI spent several years buying and leveling a large swathe of Cambridge’s formerly flourishing commercial center, closing streets and cutting off access to the river to...

Posted by happyhelen in Events, Misc, Special Days on 12 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Henry VIII had a very Merry Christmas!

I found this wonderful article from Mail online about Henry VIII’s Christmas and what he wanted.. Excerpt: His ideal present would have been a baby boy. Henry was only the second Tudor king, so to make him feel secure he needed a son to succeed him. The first Christmas of his reign, his wife Katharine...

Posted by happyhelen in Featured Articles, Misc on 12 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Elizabeth Norton Interview

I am on The Anne Boleyn Files email list, and I got an email today that has an interivew with Elizabeth Norton, a Tudor historian who has written several books about the wives of Henry. Here is an excerpt of the interview: The Tudor series portrays Thomas Boleyn as a manipulator who used his daughters...

Posted by happyhelen in Misc on 12 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Syphilis victim?

Apparently syphilis is on the rise again- this shocked the heck out of me! According to the Mail, syphilis is making a comeback among middle aged men around London. But the article briefly mentioned how Henry VIII might have died from it- does anybody know if that is the case?

Posted by happyhelen in Misc on 11 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Anne Boleyn…sexism insult?

I was reading an article about “Sexism in the City” from the Telegraph, and there was a very interesting paragraph about using the name Anne Boleyn as a sexism insult. “As one of the growing number of women who have become increasingly intolerant of the rampant sexism that is said...

Posted by happyhelen in Misc on 11 13th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Could you live in this English pile?

From the Telegraph Knole, near Sevenoaks in Kent, was established in the mid 15th century and requisitioned in 1538 from Thomas Cramner by Henry VIII, who in his overbearing kingly way had taken a liking to it. Horace Walpole, too, was impressed, describing the manor house’s “beautiful,...

Posted by happyhelen in Misc on 11 4th, 2009 | No Comments

David Starkey Podcast on Henry VIII

Click here for the podcast David Starkey on Henry VIII

Posted by happyhelen in Misc on 10 27th, 2009 | No Comments

How to wash a giant carpet

Okay, this video made me laugh. It was wonderful and fascinating to watch but it’s still kinda a hoot to see the effort and hours it took to wash basically, a really old carpet. Okay, so it’s Henry VIII’s tapestry and it’s great to make it all nice and clean and preserve...

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