Category: Tudor calendar
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Tudor Calendar Competition – Send us your entries

| July 5, 2022

Tudor Calendar Competition – Send us your entries

Last year, we had a break from publishing our annual Anne Boleyn Files & Tudor Society Calendar, and I know a lot of people were disappointed. Good news! We’ll be publishing a 2023 wall calendar, so we need your photos! Each month of our calendar will be illustrated with a Tudor themed-photograph, and this is […]

March 25 – Margaret Clitherow, the Pearl of York, and her awful end and the start of the new calendar year in the Tudor period

| March 25, 2022

March 25 – Margaret Clitherow, the Pearl of York, and her awful end and the start of the new calendar year in the Tudor period

On this day in Tudor history, 25th March 1586, Good Friday and also Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation, Catholic martyr Margaret Clitherow (née Middleton), known as “the Pearl of York”, was pressed to death at the toll-booth on Ouse Bridge in York, under 7 or 8 hundredweight. She was executed for harbouring Catholic […]

The Anne Boleyn Files Tudor Calendar 2021 now available

| November 18, 2020

The Anne Boleyn Files Tudor Calendar 2021 now available

Yay! I didn’t think we were going to be able to do a calendar so I’m very happy to share this news because so many of you have been asking for order details. The past couple of years we’ve been having the calendars printed by a local printer here in Spain and dispatching them from […]

Tudor Calendar Photography Competition closes on 1st September

| August 28, 2017

Tudor Calendar Photography Competition closes on 1st September

Just a reminder that our annual Tudor calendar photography competition closes on 1st September – this Friday! Please make sure that you have entered your photos by the end of Friday. If you’ve missed details of this competition, let me explain… Each year we produce The Anne Boleyn Files Tudor Calendar. This is a printed […]

The Anne Boleyn Files 2017 Calendar is here!

| October 6, 2016

The Anne Boleyn Files 2017 Calendar is here!

The Anne Boleyn Files Tudor Calendar 2017 has just been published and is available right now to purchase on Lulu.com! It costs £9.99/$11.29/9.15€/AU$14.70 and can be shipped worldwide (prices vary according to currency and tax). Click here to order now – you can change the country of the Lulu store by going to the flag […]

The Anne Boleyn Files Tudor Calendar 2016 – The perfect gift

| October 19, 2015

The Anne Boleyn Files Tudor Calendar 2016 – The perfect gift

I know that many of you have started your Christmas shopping (please don’t panic me by telling me that you’ve finished!), so I just wanted to draw your attention to our Anne Boleyn Files Tudor Calendar 2016 which might well be the perfect gift for the Tudor history lover in your life. The calendar measures […]

The Anne Boleyn Files Tudor Calendar 2016 Now Available

| September 3, 2015

The Anne Boleyn Files Tudor Calendar 2016 Now Available

Yes, the Anne Boleyn Files Tudor Calendar 2016 is now available to purchase on Lulu.com! It’s £9.99/$11.55 (UK/US shop price) and can be shipped worldwide (prices vay according to currency and tax). Click here to order now.* The calendar measures 11 inches by 17 inches when open, it is spiral bound in the middle and […]

25 March – Lady Day

| March 25, 2015

25 March – Lady Day

The Tudor tradition of Lady Day keeps Tudor historians and researchers on their toes, and causes confusion when dating events which happened between 1st January and 24th March. “Why?”, you may ask. Well, because in Tudor times the new calendar year did not start on 1st January, it started on 25th March, Lady Day or […]

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