Tudor News Roundup

News from the London Charterhouse

A huge congratulations to the London Charterhouse for recently winning Heritage Lottery Funding to refurbish their Great Chamber – the only surviving Tudor Great Chamber in London! Work is due to start in January.

Dig the Tudors at Sudeley Castle (Almost 100% funded!)

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

Mary Queen of Scots documents found

https://www.scotsman.com/news/royal-mile-treasure-trove-of-mary-queen-of-scots-documents-found-1-4885631/amp?fbclid=IwAR0-BYiI_LNpvf0vkxsM7TfjazHnewIzqVLRVu6cD-c5_67AoRm1ZzJNY4c

Italian scholars unveil Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘only surviving sculpture’

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/09/italian-scholars-unveil-leonardo-da-vincis-only-surviving-sculpture?CMP=share_btn_tw

See a Dazzling, Exuberant Renaissance Calligraphy Guide

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/illluminated-manuscript-calligraphy-guide?fbclid=IwAR3t8-JBJoQlUfFx4HTh7AMJPGUuFxI8t18GGhNsbvqgOT2cBDGKDk5gtmI

The Many Faces of Tudor England

https://maryrose.org/news/the-many-faces-of-tudor-england

How Multicultural was Tudor England?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/17/skeletons-of-the-mary-rose-review-how-multicultural-was-tudor-england

From Henry VIII to the Windsors: inside the power of the royal portrait

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/14/from-henry-viii-to-the-windsors-inside-the-power-of-the-royal-portrait

Seventeenth-century fertility shoe

https://antique-collecting.co.uk/2019/03/18/fertility-shoe-to-be-sold/

Books that have crossed my desk…

Articles, Podcasts, Videos & More!

Tickenhill House: The Tudor Palace on the Hill

https://thetudortravelguide.com/category/historic-places/arthur-tudor/

A Tudor Love Story: Anne Vavasour and Sir Henry Lee

https://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2019/03/17/a-tudor-love-story-anne-vavasour-and-sir-henry-lee/

The Black Legend of Lady Rochford by Adrienne Dillard

http://queenanneboleyn.com/2017/05/15/black-legend-lady-rochford-adrienne-dillard-2

Talking Tudors with Adrienne Dillard (All about Catherine Carey and Jane Boleyn)

https://talkingtudors.podbean.com/e/episode-26-talking-tudors-with-adrienne-dillard/

Talking Tudors with Dr Stephanie Russo (The Literary Afterlife of Anne Boleyn)

https://talkingtudors.podbean.com/e/episode-27-talking-tudors-with-dr-stephanie-russo/

Talking Tudors with Professor Kate Williams (All about Mary Queen of Scots)

https://talkingtudors.podbean.com

Talking Tudors with Lisa Westcott Wilkins and Stephen Torrode (All about two Tudor treasures recently uncovered at Sudeley Castle)

https://talkingtudors.podbean.com

On this day in Tudor history videos by Claire Ridgway

Episode: Author Heather Darsie on Anna, Duchess of Cleves

https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-author-25259702?fbclid=IwAR1gVIlMYrX32IiHp_sg8p2hJEs7QjIHC4GCKNjw6C9PTt8Ub0-3PYHJneY

Playing Cards and Popular Culture in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg

https://www.historicgames.com/pdf/german%20cards.pdf

The Life and Death of Charles Brandon by Tony Riches

https://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2019/03/11/the-life-and-death-of-charles-brandon-by-tony-riches/

Women of the Tudor Court

https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4884&context=open_access_etds

Katherine of Aragon: A “Pioneer of Women’s Education”? Humanism and Women’s Education in Early Sixteenth Century England

https://mro.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10179/10767/02_whole.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

The Tudors and their Parliaments

https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgireferer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1431&context=honors-theses

New Tudor Blogs

https://ladyjanegreyrevisited.wordpress.com

Digital Manuscripts

Henry VIII’s love letters to Anne Boleyn (Thanks to Sylvia Soberton for sharing this link)

https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3731.pt.A

Events/Exhibitions that have caught my eye!

The Many Faces of Tudor England Exhibition at the Mary Rose Museum

https://maryrose.org/Faces

Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits is showing at Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria from 16 March to 14 July

https://www.bendigoregion.com.au/bendigo-art-gallery/exhibitions/tudors-windsors-british-royal-portraits

Elizabeth I: Construction of an Icon

https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/friday-lates/screening-12042019

Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud

https://www.comptonverney.org.uk/thing-to-do/painting-childhood-from-holbein-to-freud/

Electoral Wardrobe – an exhibition of sixteenth and seventeenth century clothing

https://ruestkammer.skd.museum/ausstellungen/kurfuerstliche-garderobe/

Jewel in the Hand

https://philipmould.com/gallery/edit/jewel-in-the-hand-exhibitionfbclid=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/

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