A Collection of links to free post-secondary research into Henry VIII’s second wife. OVERVIEW & PURPOSE To offer you free resources to learn about one of the most talked about women in history – Anne Boelyn. This is a collection of theses, dissertations and books written on your favorite subject. Take the time to absorb…
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by Cassidy Cash Why, they will allow us ne’er a jordan, and then we leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds fleas like a loach. Second Carrier, Henry IV Part 1, (II.1) Room at the Edman’s Museum showing a room with a Bible and a Chamberpot (Jordan) as would have been set up, potentially…
Title: London in the Time of the Tudors Author: Sir Walter Besant Public Domain Listen to PART ONE here: SCRIPT Hi, I’m historian Christine Morgan and welcome to A Brief History. On this episode we continue the story of Henry VII from the book London in the Time of Tudors. In part one we left…
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Title: London in the Time of the Tudors Author: Sir Walter Besant Public Domain SCRIPT On stepping out of the fifteenth into the sixteenth century one becomes conscious of a change; no such change was felt in passing from the twelfth to the thirteenth century, or from the fourteenth to the fifteenth. The world…
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Guest article by Cassidy Cash The Tower of London was first established by William the Conqueror in 1066 as a show of power, an act of defense, and a gateway into the city of London. Close to 200 years later in the year 1200, the Tower of London became the place to store exotic animals.…
Ten things you didn’t know about Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter Written by Sylvia Barbara Soberton Great by birth, greater by marriage. Gertrude’s father, William Blount, Fourth Baron Mountjoy, was an influential member of the Tudor court, a respected humanistic scholar and patron of learning. He served as chamberlain in the household of Queen Katharine…
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