Claire | August 11, 2016
Last week, I published a guest article, Fact, by Clare Cherry in which she talked about the problem of assumptions and theories becoming taken as fact. The article received lots of comments and I also received a fair few emails about it. One Anne Boleyn Files follower asked me “but why are these “notions” not […]
Category: Myths and Legends, Boleyn Myth, George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, Representations of Anne Boleyn, Six Wives |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn myths, historical innacuracies, historical myths, inaccuracies
Claire | August 3, 2016
Clare Cherry, co-author of George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier and Diplomat, discusses the problem of assumptions and theories becoming taken as fact. There are many ‘known’ ‘facts’ which aren’t actually facts at all. A lot of what we think we know comes from urban myth, old wives tales, mistake, assumption, exaggeration, etc. etc. There are […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Boleyn Myth, George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, Representations of Anne Boleyn, The Boleyns |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn myths, fact versus fiction, historical accuracy, historical facts, historical fiction, historical myths
