Claire Ridgway
Claire Ridgway, creator of The Anne Boleyn Files, is a British writer, researcher and historian who spends every day researching Tudor history and writing about Anne Boleyn and the Tudors. She leaves no stone unturned in her quest to find out the truth about Anne Boleyn and to educate people about Anne’s story.
Claire freely admits to being a Tudor history addict, a real Tudor ‘nut’, and loves running The Anne Boleyn Files as it gives her the perfect excuse to immerse herself completely in the 16th century, talk Tudor all day and wear Tudor dresses and jewellery.
Claire has written three best-selling Tudor history books:
- The Anne Boleyn Collection (February 2012).
- The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown (May 2012).
- On This Day in Tudor History (November 2012).
Claire has been overwhelmed by the positive response to The Anne Boleyn Files and the friendly community it has become. She loves hearing from other Tudor history and Anne Boleyn fans so don’t be afraid to contact her at claire@theanneboleynfiles.com
Hurrah Claire!
We’re so lucky to have you doing the work you love!
I’m forever looking for more books to read and research on this lifetime fascination I’ve also held with the Tudor period. I so look forward each week to your booklist updates.
David Starkey’s “Henry, Virtuous Prince” and the book “Bess of Hardwick” are my latest reads. Both wonderful.
Look forward to seeing you next week!
Velvet
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nice website, i just subscribed
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Hi Claire!
When will the next essay competition be? I missed out on the last one
Thank you!
Michelle
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Brilliant page! I’m happy I stumbled across it!
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Brilliant page. I have just discovered it. THANK YOU for creating such a place. I feel like I just won the lottery!! I had given up on doing research on the internet as I could only find ‘standard’ information on AB. I need to dust up my knowledge, it has been a while since I had an intelligent discourse on Tudor History. I’m always the odd one out in my circle’s interests, I’m always attempting to study this subject. You have provided the key and answers to my thoughts. I hope to learn from you how to do research, I live in the US, so I will have to live vicariously thru you. Claire, thank you for all you do to dispell myths and legends that everyone think true of Ann and the Tudors. Sincerely, your newest fan, Marivel.
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Claire Reply:
March 9th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Hi Marivel,
Thank you so much for your very kind comment, I’m so glad that you found The Anne Boleyn Files and that you’ve enjoyed browsing the website. Do let me know if you need anything.
Best Wishes,
Claire
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I just wanted to say what a billiant web site this is, so much rubbish is written about Anne and it’s wonderful to see a place where the information is accurate and well researched.
I have enjoyed Tudor history since a teenager thanks to a number of good history teachers and a wonderful english teacher who reccommended Jean Plaidy to me.
Not a great fan of some of the historical novelists around today, I did have a disagreement with someone the other day who had read The Other Bolyn Girl and maintained that every word contained in the book was correct becasue the author “said so”………….I told the lady I was speaking to that having read the book myself it was a good bit of escapism hoilday reading but if she wanted to find out the facts to start by reading David Starky or Alison Weir………..for some reason it didn’t go down too well.
I found this site by downloading a sample of the collection you’d put into book form for my Kindle and have added it to my wish list, have found it fasinating to read and it has brought a greater understanding of her life and times to me!
Thank you.
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Oh my god so glad to have found like minded people i am to put it blunt obsessed with tudor history and Anne the most so glad to have come across this page Thank you xx
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Hi guys. I too am faincted wit the tudor s and all things historical. What i would like to know is why everyone is so hard on phillipa gregory? Surely, parts of history are simply subjective, as we simply can not ‘know’ everything that happened, as we were not there. I have been advised to read ms.ridgway’s work, which i will duly do. I am curious as to what she can tell me that is not already in the vast series of ms.gregory. I hope i am not disappointed. I learned about latter, by chance, through an american girl on the net. C
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Claire,
I am a huge fan of your website! Thank you so much for all the work and dedication you put into it for us to enjoy. I am going to London next week (for the first time!) in a few days, and I was just wondering if you had some ‘must-see’ Tudor sights to recommend for me to check out. Thanks!
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Hi Claire,
Just finished your Tudors book – fantastic. Now reading Anne Boleyn. The books, for anyone’s information, are perfect for anyone who wants to quickly learn about the characters of this time span. Guaranteed, after reading them, you will want more. Claire, thanks so much for the books. Absolutely love them and thank you for all the reasearch you have done for all of us. Solace
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loved the ‘marmite’ reference, im an aussie, we generally call it vegimite, but the problem of people not liking it is cos they dont eat it right (should be on buttered toast, not a spoon lol)
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CLAIRE!!! And once more thank you for all your hard work in breaking apart the myths of Tudor England, especially those concerning our Anne. Not having a lot of time for research, I am so grateful to have a site that I can rely on to have the truth and the latest information and therories. Best of all is that you do, and most emphatically, distinguish fact from therory from myth and legend! I have learned a great deal of new information and dispelled a lot of myths I had believed to be true.
Have a lovely birthday – do something to pamper yourself!
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hello claire
im a really good tudor reshearcher and i love the anne boleyn files but on may 19 is anne boleyn execution day
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Hi – I’ve only recently found this page and have now subscribed. Have been fascinated with the Tudors and Anne in particular for years – so glad to have found like-minded people. Brilliant website!
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Claire Reply:
May 13th, 2013 at 5:22 pm
Welcome to The Anne Boleyn Files, Linda, I do hope you enjoy browsing the site.
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Claire,
I hope you had a wonderful weekend in London. Wish I could have been there. Can’t wait to see the pics.
Kim
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Claire Reply:
May 20th, 2013 at 4:26 pm
Thanks, Kim, it was a lovely weekend.
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