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I am writing to express my concern about the disappearance, without trace, of some individuals known as the “Cairo dwellers”. For many years, they have spattered cyberspace with information they must surely have known to be untrue, taken from five year-old boys who imply themselves to have been present at Council meetings, blind French eye-witnesses,…
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1) He created two peeresses in their own right – Margaret Pole as Countess of Salisbury and Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke (see point 2). 2) He gave noblewomen, such as the above, Lady Margaret (Stafford) Bulmer, Catherine Howard and Viscountess Rochford, an equal opportunity to be executed. 3) He gave women, such as…
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The title sounds like a fairy tale, doesn’t it? Well, I’m once again going to address the matter of those pesky princes in the Tower as I found myself recently debating with several folks who still want to hang on to a certain rather improbable fairy story about them—the one created by our ‘favourite’ saint,…
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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 …
