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Why did Anne Boleyn REALLY have to die?.. – EverythingTudorBlog
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A blog for those who love Tudor history. Why did Anne Boleyn REALLY have to die? November 12, 2016. November 22, 2016. The execution of Anne Boleyn has been portrayed in so many books and films that it is easy to forget that she was once a real breathing human being and not just a character in a play. Unlike us, Anne did not know the end of her script until the cold morning of 19th May 1536 and for her it must have been a terrifying and shocking end. Anne’s marriage had been annulled in the days be...
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London’s heart of stone? Excalibur? King Arthur’s sword in the stone? What is the London stone? – EverythingTudorBlog
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A blog for those who love Tudor history. London’s heart of stone? King Arthur’s sword in the stone? What is the London stone? November 8, 2016. November 22, 2016. The square marks the spot on the Agas map. The stone was described by the London historian John Stow in 1598 as “a great stone called London stone”, “pitched upright… fixed in the ground verie deep, fastned with bars of iron”. The stone was damaged in the Great fire of London in 1666 but unlike most of the medieval city it survived. During the ...
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December 2016 – EverythingTudorBlog
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A blog for those who love Tudor history. Does this old Rhyme describe Henry VIII’s marital history and executions? December 9, 2016. January 31, 2017. Continue reading “Does this old Rhyme describe Henry VIII’s marital history and executions? Feel free to share. The making of Henry VIII’s Crown. December 3, 2016. Feel free to share. Silver Groat Henry VII (1485-1509) by Sophy Boyle. Queen Elizabeth I, the Boleyns and their connection to Norwich Cathedral. The making of Henry VIII’s Crown. Games, collecti...
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Does this old Rhyme describe Henry VIII’s marital history and executions? – EverythingTudorBlog
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A blog for those who love Tudor history. Does this old Rhyme describe Henry VIII’s marital history and executions? December 9, 2016. January 31, 2017. I have often wondered if the last line of ‘Oranges and lemons’ is about the executions in Henry VIII’s reign and if the game really goes back as far as Tudor times. And the intonation of each line corresponds with the distinct sounds of each church’s bells. Today, the bells of St. Clement Danes. Picture by Agnes Rose Bouvier. On the word ‘dead’...I am sure...
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Q and A – EverythingTudorBlog
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A blog for those who love Tudor history. Did women have their heads displayed on a spikes on London Bridge? Yes: Elizabeth Barton: ‘The maid of Kent’s’ head was put on display. She was hanged and decapitated in 1533 for prophesying Henry VIII’s death if he married Anne Boleyn. Did the Tudors really play football? What did a lady in waiting actually do? Were women tortured in the Tower as well as men? Officially, only one woman was tortured: Anne Askew. Was Anne Boleyn guilty of adultery? When Henry VII i...
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Places of execution in Tudor London and their positive affect on Britain today… – EverythingTudorBlog
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A blog for those who love Tudor history. Places of execution in Tudor London and their positive affect on Britain today…. November 4, 2016. November 5, 2016. For centuries Speakers corner in Hyde park has been the place where Londoners have stood on boxes and practised their right of free speech. Today some speakers talk complete nonsense to make the crowd laugh, others tell smutty jokes and some shout their political or religious views to the London crowd who boo or applaud. Sometimes called Tyburn Gall...
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Casting Light upon the Shadow: January 2017
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Casting Light upon the Shadow. The Story So Far . Tuesday, 31 January 2017. January can be a quiet month, but for me there's been quite a bit going on. As well as reeling from the news that Alvar. Has won a Discovering Diamonds Special Award, and a Chill with a Book Readers' Award, I'm busy working on my contribution to In Bed with the British. Which will be published by Pen and Sword books later on this year. But I shall still be blogging. Some midweek musings about writing, generally. Look out for Febr...
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Bloody and brutal, Tudor Punishments… – EverythingTudorBlog
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A blog for those who love Tudor history. Bloody and brutal, Tudor Punishments…. November 22, 2016. November 22, 2016. The prison guards or. Keepers’ fed the victim with ‘Three morsels of barley bread without drink for the first day and as much filthy water as they like if they survived to the next day. Pressing in later times. In later century’s hangmen were experts in killing with as little pain and as quickly as possible by careful, but covert, examination of the prisoner whilst they took their exercis...
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