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Claire | March 29, 2010
It seems fitting during Holy Week to look at Anne Boleyn’s role in the English Reformation. However, one of the mysteries surrounding Anne Boleyn is what Anne herself believed, i.e. her own personal faith, and what her role in the English Reformation actually was. Historians just can’t seem to agree! In his report, “Anne Boleyn’s
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Claire | March 27, 2010
As you know, here at the Anne Boleyn we are fundraising for The Mary Rose 500 Appeal to help build a new Mary Rose museum to house Henry VIII’s favourite ship and the 19,000 artifacts which were found when it was raised from the seabed. So, I thought you may be interested in this story
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Claire | March 24, 2010
Just to let you know that Eduard Cibot’s beautiful painting of “Anne Boleyn at the Tower of London shortly after her arrest” (1835) is on display at the National Gallery as part of their Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey Exhibition. What on earth is a painting of Anne Boleyn doing at a Delaroche and Lady
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Claire | March 24, 2010
407 years ago today, on the 24th March 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died, leaving a shocked and grief-stricken country. Many of the English people had only ever known Elizabeth I as their queen, for she had reigned over England for over 44 years. I have written about Elizabeth I’s death and funeral over at the
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Claire | March 22, 2010
Just a quickie post to let you know that we are discontinuing some items – see End of Line Jewelry – and also have an Easter bargain page for you to get hold of some of our “The Tudors” and Elizabeth jewelry at discounted prices. There’s nothing wrong with them and those items are not
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Claire | March 22, 2010
Showtime have just released this wonderful video presented by Natalied Dormer. In it, Natalie is given her own private tour of the British Library’s “Man and Monarch” exhibition where she sees, among other things, portraits, one of Henry’s love letters to Anne and a report about the evidence of Catherine Howard’s sexual encounters before her
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Claire | March 21, 2010
Continued from “The Life of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer” to commemorate the execution of Cranmer on this day in history, the 21st March 1556. Treason and Death: On the 13th November 1553, Thomas Cranmer was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was then moved to Oxford’s Bocardo Prison in March 1554, along with
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Claire | March 21, 2010
On this day in history, 21st March 1556, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer was executed, he was burnt at the stake as a herectic, one of the Protestant martyrs of Mary I’s reign and one of the three famous “Oxford Martyrs”. This article has been split into two parts – The Life of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and
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