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Anne Boleyn – Was she really the Great Scandal of Christendom?

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When Henry VIII sought to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon to wed her maid-of-honour, Anne Boleyn,…

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The 1925 View of Anne Boleyn was Rather Strange

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A big thank you to Diane for telling me about Charles Maclaurin's 1925 book "Post Mortems of Mere…

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#FridayFun – Anne Boleyn on Screen Quiz

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This week's #FridayFun is a quiz on cultural depictions of Anne Boleyn in movies and on TV. How…

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#PortraitTuesday – The Courtship of Anne Boleyn by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

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This week's #PortraitTuesday treat is a 19th century oil painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. It's called "The Courtship…

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#PortraitTuesday – A 17th-century engraving of Anne Boleyn by Renold Elstrack

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This week's #PortraitTuesday treat is a 17th-century engraving of Queen Anne Boleyn by Renold (Reginold) Elstrack (1570-c.1625). Elstrack…

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#WednesdayFact – “The Most Happy” wasn’t Anne Boleyn’s only motto

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Anne Boleyn used the motto "The Most Happy", or "La Plus Heureuse", when she became queen, but did…

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#PortraitTuesday – A drawing of a woman said to be Anne Boleyn by Hans Holbein the Younger

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This week's #PortraitTuesday treat is another drawing from Hans Holbein the Younger, an artist who was at the…

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