Claire | May 22, 2012
Just a quick post to alert you to the fact that the Kindle version of Sandra Byrd’s wonderful novel To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn is available this week and next week for just $2.99 on Amazon.com – bargain! Many of you will remember that I reviewed To Die For when it first
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Claire | May 21, 2012
As you know, I was counting down, day by day, to Anne Boleyn’s execution on The Fall of Anne Boleyn timeline. Well, by this time in 1536 Anne was dead and gone and was about to be replaced by a new queen. I do have more articles to add to The Fall site, but I
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Tags: Bring Up the Bodies, fall of Anne Boleyn, Hilary Mantel, historical fiction
Claire | May 19, 2012
Thank you to all those of you who entered our 2012 Anne Boleyn Day competition. We had 44 entries in all so the judges were very busy! The judges were aware that many entries were written by those who had English as a second language and so the entries were judged on content, the story
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Claire | May 18, 2012
To commemorate the anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s execution I am listing the Kindle version of my book The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown for $0.00 on Amazon US, Amazon UK and Amazon’s international sites today and tomorrow, the 18th and 19th May. Now, I know that many of you will already have it (thank
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Tags: free kindle book, free kindle promotion, The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Claire | May 17, 2012
I wanted to create a way of people being able to commemorate the anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s execution and it dawned on me when I was sending a birthday e-card the other day that my wonderful techie husband could perhaps create an Anne Boleyn e-card. I begged and batted my eye-lids (works every time!) and
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Tags: Anne Boleyn e-card, Anne Boleyn Execution, Anne Boleyn's execution, e-card, The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Claire | May 16, 2012
Just to let you know that our sister site, History Tours of Britain, has twenty tickets available for a private after-hours evening tour of the Tower of London followed by the historic Ceremony of the Keys on the 23rd June 2012. We are selling them in groups of five, which is a saving of £10
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Claire | May 4, 2012
It’s time for our annual Anne Boleyn Day competition, a competition we hold to commemorate the anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s execution on the 19th May 1536. This year, I’m giving you two choices on what to write about:- An account of Anne Boleyn’s execution from the point of view of the executioner – You could
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Tags: Anne Boleyn Day, competition
Claire | May 1, 2012
What should have been a fun day, a celebration, turned into a nightmare for Sir Henry Norris, Henry VIII’s Groom of the Stool and good friend. The day started well, with Norris leading the defenders and George Boleyn the challengers, but then Norris’s horse refused to run. Fortunately, this did not ruin the joust because
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Tags: fall of Anne, May Day, May Day Joust, Sir Henry Norris