Guest Bio
Dr Claire Martin is a historian specialising in the history of London and the late Medieval period. She has worked on a number of London companies, including the Woolmen and the Girdlers and her PhD looked at London’s medieval transport industry. She is currently working, on behalf of The Yorkist History Trust, to publish the executors’ accounts and remarkably detailed probate inventories of the former House of Commons Speaker, Sir Thomas Charlton.
Dr Martin’s Tudor Takeaway
Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery
https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/opus-anglicanum-masterpieces-of-english-medieval-embroidery
Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Martin about the Boleyn family.
Tune in to hear Natalie and Dr Martin discuss:
– The origins of the Boleyn famly
– The two Geoffrey Boleyns
– Boleyn women
– The advantageous marriages made by two generations of Boleyn men
– Royal service
– Boleyn properties
– Lesser-known Boleyns
– Thomas Boleyn’s relationship with his mother
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