Claire | May 24, 2013
I thought I’d write a review (well, more of a rundown) of the BBC2 programme The Last Days of Anne Boleyn for those of you who missed it or are unable to see it. I sat scribbling notes as fast as I could and I hope this makes sense! The programme flitted between a narrator […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Execution, Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536 |
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Tags: Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn's downfall, Anne Boleyn's execution, David Starkey, fall, fall of, G W Bernard, Greg Walker, Hilary Mantel, John Skip, last days of Anne Boleyn, Philippa Gregory, Suzannah Lipscomb, The Last Days of Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell
Claire | February 24, 2012
Today’s article has been inspired by a comment left on the website overnight, a comment which read “Anne Boleyn was cheating on the king and was disrespectful, she deserved to be killed.” Yep, I’m on my soapbox! Now, everyone has their own point of view and I have nothing against the person who left that comment […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536 |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn trial, Anne Boleyn's fall, Eric Ives, fall of Anne, G W Bernard, George Boleyn, Mark Smeaton, May 1536, Sir Francis Weston, Sir Henry Norris, Sir William Brereton, trial, trials
Claire | October 21, 2011
Professor Eric Ives has just published his review of G W Bernard’s “Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions” in the October edition of “The Journal of Ecclesiastical History” and it’s a wonderful read and well worth downloading from the Cambridge Journals website. As you may know, Bernard and Ives have never seen eye to eye on Anne […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Books, Events of 1536, Representations of Anne Boleyn, The Reformation |
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Tags: Eric Ives, G W Bernard, religion, The Reformation
Claire | March 30, 2011
I reviewed historian G W Bernard’s “Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions” when it first came out last year – click here to read my review – so I was interested to read two new reviews of it, one by my friend Gareth Russell over at his blog “Confessions of a Ci-Devant” and another by Susan Walters […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Books, News, Representations of Anne Boleyn |
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Tags: adultery, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions, book reviews, G W Bernard, Lancelot de Carles
Claire | March 29, 2011
In the Epilogue of his book “Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions”, G W Bernard discusses women who see Anne Boleyn as a role model. He quotes a poster on a website as saying “I believe it’s something we girls should learn from; we should not sulk when things don’t go our way, we should change it” […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Personality, Representations of Anne Boleyn |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, G W Bernard, heroine, inspiration, role model
Claire | April 28, 2010
There has been lots of controversy over this new Anne Boleyn biography because, unlike other modern historians like Eric Ives, G W Bernard is of the opinion that Anne Boleyn may have been guilty. This theory has had Anne Boleyn fans around the world up in arms but I decided to read Bernard’s book with […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Anne Boleyn General, Anne Boleyn Myths, Books, News, The Boleyns, The Reformation, Tudor Characters, Tudor Events |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions, G W Bernard, The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Claire | February 23, 2010
If you’re like me, you are eagerly awaiting the publication of G W Bernard’s “Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions” which comes out in April (May in the USA). Why? Because this is one historian who believes that Anne could actually have been guilty of adultery and worse, incest. Most historians these days are sympathetic to Anne’s […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Execution, Anne Boleyn Fall, Anne Boleyn General, Anne Boleyn Myths, Books, George Boleyn, Marriage, Myths and Legends, News, Six Wives, The Boleyns, Tudor Characters, Tudor Politics |
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Tags: adultery, Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn, Eric Ives, G W Bernard, George Boleyn, incest, infidelity, Lancelot de Carles, Sir Henry Norris
Claire | December 31, 2009
Well, this is my last blog of 2009 and of the decade, and what a year it has been! I started The Anne Boleyn Files on the 17th February 2009 after having a dream about Anne Boleyn. I woke up in the middle of the night, shook my husband awake and announced that I was […]
Category: Anne Boleyn General, Books, News, Tudor Jewellery |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, G W Bernard