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Commemmorating Henry VIII’s “wife”. http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/19/decapitation-by-femme-no-5-get-your-own-tudor-inspired-perfume-at-york/ If you buy this, it won’t be by ax-ident.
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… that David Starkey has solved the mystery of Stony Stratford. As we know, three to five hundred of the Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham’s men managed to persuade Edward V to accompany them to London and not Earl Rivers’ two thousand retainers who had taken him so far. Most of Gloucester’s adherents were in…
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Pages 69-70 of the latest Bulletin feature the complete fisking of Terry Breverton’s book, chapter by chapter, by the veteran writer Ken Hillier. Breverton, he says, has just repeated a lot of things any reasonably intelligent person now knows not to be true – the ultimate definition of a denialist.
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Members of a new organisation, the Society of Henry VII, are seeking to have the late medieval king declared a saint by the Vatican. Mr. J.S. Artichoke, leader of the shadowy group, explained that his members had nearly all belonged to the Richard III Society, and that one or two had even held office within…
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… in which David Starkey took over the “Today” programme on Thursday: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/23/david-starkey-magna-carta_n_7124440.html Rather a shame because he should stick to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, about whom he is the principal expert.
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It seems that a certain forum has now denied ever sharing an offensive cartoon of an eminent historian, despite the existence of communication about it. Cue the frantic scanning of three years’ output to remove any reference to it …
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Henry VII and his monkey of a monkey . . . . The above drawing (partially coloured by me) is of unknown origin, but I like it because it shows Henry’s pet monkey. I don’t know what its name was, or even if it had one, but in my next Cicely books he is called…
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Which of these qualifies as “evidence”? 1) “Sources” written hundreds of miles away, fifty years later, by blind men or paid hagiographers, that have been disproved on point after point? 2) Original, painstaking research by qualified historians? If you answered 1: Congratulations. You qualify for the consolation prize of a new dictionary, which you so…
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King Richard took one look around the stage curtain and decided there and then that this would be his first and last public appearance before his adoring fans. He’d rather face Bosworth again!
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