February’s Tudor News Roundup

Tudor News Roundup

Letterlocking

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-people-do-before-envelopes-letterlocking

Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots unveiled at Hever Castle

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/discover/rare-mary-queen-of-scots-painting-on-public-display-for-first-time-903127.html

 New Research Reveals Fashion Secrets of Mary Queen of Scots

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/news/new-research-reveals-fashion-secrets-of-mary-queen-of-scots/?hootPostID=2253d4fe721dcfd33ad8ab6b9ece3a3c

Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/11/archive-shows-medieval-nun-faked-her-own-death-to-escape-convent?CMP=share_btn_tw

Collyweston: Northamptonshire’s ‘lost’ royal palace hunted by archaeologists

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-47209859

FIT FOR A KING – House that was once Henry VIII’s ‘walk-in wardrobe’ goes on market for £4m

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8418445/henry-viii-wardrobe-bigger-house/

Dig the Tudors at Sudeley Castle

https://digventures.com/projects/sudeley-castle

The Great Tudor Bakeoff

https://thetudortravelguide.com/category/tudor-recipes

Books that have crossed my desk…

Articles, Podcasts, Videos & More!

Robert Beale and the Queen of Scots

https://www.bl.uk/eblj/1994articles/pdf/article5.pdf

The True Executor of the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots by Melissa Koeppen

https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1024&context=constructing

An Honest Bed: The Scene of Life and Death in Late Medieval England

https://brewminate.com/an-honest-bed-the-scene-of-life-and-death-in-late-medieval-england/

Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset? Re-examining a Tudor portrait

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41615040?read-now=1&seq=8#page_scan_tab_contents

Talking Tudors with Janet Wertman (Edward Seymour)

https://talkingtudors.podbean.com/e/episode-22-talking-tudors-with-janet-wertman

Talking Tudors with Brigitte Webster (Tudor Food and Cookery)

https://talkingtudors.podbean.com/e/episode-23-talking-tudors-with-brigitte-webster

The Most Happy Feminist Witch

The Most Happy Feminist Witch

The Anne Boleyn Files & Tudor Society ‘On this Day in Tudor History’ videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/AnneBoleynFiles

Events/Exhibitions that have caught my eye!

Jewel in the Hand

https://philipmould.com/gallery/edit/jewel-in-the-hand-exhibition?fbclid=IwAR2TyeYYKJVn7FoSSWbA5qOV81d1m2SVzCemfGnjC2eX-TM0ZnYDEU4VQgU

Letterlocking on the Shakespearean Stage

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on-2018/research-in-action-by-your-leave-wax

Elizabethan Treasures – Miniatures by Hilliard & Oliver

https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/elizabethan-treasures/exhibition

Online Learning

Future Learn – The Tudors

Go back in time to learn about the dramatic rule of the Tudor monarchs and religious change of the sixteenth century reformation.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/the-tudors

*If you’d like to suggest a link for inclusion in March’s Tudor News Roundup, please get in touch!

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