Happy New Year to all Anne Boleyn Files Visitors!
I just wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year! May 2015 bring you joy and…
A great year for George Boleyn!
2014 saw the publication of George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier and Diplomat, the first full length biography of…
28 December – Childermas
Massacre of the Innocents vy Cornelis van Haarlem 1591Today is Childermas (Children's Mass) or Holy Innocents' Day and…
27 December 1539 – The Arrival of Anne of Cleves
On 27th December 1539, at 5pm, Anne of Cleves landed at Deal on the Kent coast, where she…
Christmas Day – What Anne Boleyn would have read
During Advent I have been sharing readings from French Reformer Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples' book Epistres et Evangiles pour…
Merry Christmas!
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the…
24 December 1545 – Henry VIII’s Final Speech to Parliament
On 24th December 1545, King Henry VIII made his final speech to Parliament. Historian Robert Hutchinson describes it…