Claire | April 22, 2022
There’s less than a month how until my online event, “The Fall of Anne Boleyn with Claire Ridgway”! Thank you to all those who’ve signed up and I’m glad you’re as excited as I am. I’m so looking forward to exploring the events of spring 1536 with you, and looking at Anne Boleyn’s legacy. Here […]
Claire | March 29, 2017
Amazon.com have just added the kindle version of my book The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown to their “Prime Reading Program”. In a statement about this programme, which was launched in October 2016, Amazon explained “Prime members can now enjoy unlimited reading from a rotating selection of books, magazines, comics and more – at […]
Claire | May 9, 2013
Shameless advertising, I’m afraid, but then it is my book and it is quite good, although I am rather biased! For those of you who have never heard of it, The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown tells the story of Anne’s fall a day at a time and is based on the primary sources, […]
Claire | May 6, 2013
On 6th May 1536, it is said that Anne Boleyn wrote the following letter to her husband, King Henry VIII, from the Tower of London: “To the King from the Lady in the Tower” [Heading said to have been added by Thomas Cromwell] “Sir, your Grace’s displeasure, and my Imprisonment are Things so strange unto […]
Claire | April 29, 2013
It sounds like a weird game of Cluedo doesn’t it? Well, the spring of 1536 was a bit like a game of cluedo or a crime novels, lots of twists and turns, and alleged dirty deeds. According to Anne Boleyn, in a conversation she had with Mrs Stoner in the Tower, she had a run-in […]
Claire | April 27, 2013
On 27th April 1536, writs were issued summoning Parliament, and a letter was sent to Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, asking him to attend Parliament. Here is the relevant section from the Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII: “Summons to the archbishop of Canterbury to attend the Parliament which is to meet […]
Claire | April 9, 2013
Thank you so much to Tamise from The Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide for inspiring this post. Tamise emailed me and asked me if I’d consider writing a post outlining the differing views regarding Anne Boleyn’s fall and I thought it was an excellent idea. The responsibility for Anne’s fall is something I discuss towards […]
Claire | June 26, 2012
Since Hilary Mantel’s novel Bring Up the Bodies has been published, I have been inundated with emails asking me if I was going to review it and also asking me whether certain things are true. Well, I’m not going to review it because I don’t feel right doing that when I’ve also written a book […]
