Dan Snow

Dan Snow video on some of our kings and queens, including Richard III….

Mar 23, 2025

armour, battles, culture, films, history, medieval characters, Richard III, The play’s the thing, Uncategorized, Usurpers to throne

“Princes”, Battle of Bosworth, Colin Firth, Dan Snow, Edward I, Edward II, Edward VII, Edward VIII, George III, George IV, George V, George VI, Henry V, Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, Nigel Hawthorne, Olivia Colman, Patrick McGoohan, Piers Gaveston, Queen Anne, Richard III

Dan Snow may be a popular historian, always on TV, always praised and admired, but he seldom comes in for any thumbs-up from Ricardians. Well, like most of today’s TV-historians, he’s pro-Tudor. And that, folks, means putting their Rosa Klebb boots into Richard III. So when this link https://shorturl.at/nlCnD turned up and I saw it…
Gloucester’s Winter Warmer Digital Festival….

Jan 11, 2025

archaeology, buildings, culture, Events, history, medieval food, Uncategorized

“Princes”, Chris Packham, Dan Snow, David Olusoga, Dom Joly, Gloucester History Trust, Gloucester UK, Greg Jenner, Mark Gatiss, Michael Wood, Natalie Haynes, Philippa Langley, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard III, sathnam sanghera, Susie Dent, Tom Kerridge, William Dalrymple, Winter Warmer Digital Festival

“….The Gloucester History Trust is launching a new digital festival starring Britain’s leading historians, broadcasters and authors to keep fans entertained through the coldest months of the year….The Winter Warmer Digital Festival features 50 online events from the popular Blackfriars Talks with guests including A House Through Time presenter David Olusoga, top historian Michael Wood,…
Snowed under by stupidity?

May 17, 2023

anniversaries, sources, television reviews

Arthur Kincaid, Dan Snow, denialists, Richard III Society, Sir George Buc

Following the new edition of Arthur Kincaid’s ‘The History of King Richard the Third’ by Sir George Buc, there have been several news items about it, including a TV clip from Dan Snow on Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine Show. Snow himself is enthusiastic about the work done by the Richard III Society members who helped…
The art of marrying in secret

Oct 4, 2022

art, buildings, law, religion

Adele, Andre Previn, artists, Beatrice, Cardinal Bibbieni, clues, convent of Sant’ Appolonia, Dan Snow, Ed Sheeran, Edward IV, Emma Bunton, John Lennon, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, La Fornarini, Louis XIV, Margareta Luti, Maria Bibbieni, mediaeval canon law, nuns, Raphael, secret marriage

So now we examine the case of the artist Raphael (d’Urbino), who lived from 1483-1520. He was officially betrothed, in 1514, to Maria Bibbiena, the niece of a Cardinal (left, painted in 1516), which implies the need for some propriety in the relationship. Canon law would definitely apply and the chance of secretly marrying her…
In case you haven’t noticed …

Jun 14, 2022

anniversaries, battles, Book Reviews, buildings, religion

Archbishop of Canterbury, Barrie Williams, Bosworth, Dan Snow, daughters of Edward IV, de la Pole family, Edward of Middleham, Edward of Warwick, Elizabeth of York, Joanna, John Earl of Lincoln, Manuel Duke of Beja, Margaret of Salisbury, On this day in history, Peasants’ Revolt, Portuguese archives, Richard III, Sheriff Hutton, Simon of Sudbury, skulls, St. Gregory’s

… we like our anniversaries here at Murrey and Blue. Having received this book about anniversaries as a birthday present, I found a substantial amount of unfamiliar information and several new cases, but there were two noticeable lacunae: (14th June on the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt): “Sudbury‘s skull survives, in St. Gregory’s Church in Norwich …”…
Visit the Chalke Valley History Festival….!

Jun 3, 2022

battles, Events

Antarctic, Battle of Bosworth, Chalke Valley History Festival, Dan Snow, Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room, Philippa Gregory, Sebastian Faulkes, Shackleton

“….a forensic reconstruction of how Richard III lost his life at Bosworth….” I don’t know what the above extract entails, and to find out I need a ticket! The reconstruction is one of the many attractions at the forthcoming . Chalke Valley History Festival It all sounds excellent and I hope the crowds pour…
Of a well-connected art expert …

Jan 29, 2022

anniversaries, art, genealogy, heraldry, law, television reviews

baronets, Barons of Ebury, Barons Scrope of Bolton, Barringtons, Britain’s lost Masterpieces, Charles Manners-Sutton, Chester, Dan Snow, Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, Dukes of Westminster, Jacobite portraiture, James VI/I, Justin Welby, Lady Edwina Grosvenor, racehorses, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Rubens, Scrope/ Grosvenor case, van Dyck, William Pykenham

After a few Archbishops of Canterbury and an Archdeacon (perhaps), we now come to an expert on art – Old Masters and Jacobite art in particular. Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, as seen in this BBC2 series when he has identified portraits such as the first Villiers Duke of Buckingham, is descended from the Cheshire family that…
Someone else who clearly didn’t marry in secret

Jan 21, 2022

anniversaries, humour, law, religion

Adele, Andre Previn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Dan Snow, denialists, Ed Sheeran, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Emma Bunton, John Lennon, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, secret marriage

Here she is, joining the list with Edward IV (twice), Louis XIV, John Lennon, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Sir Andre Previn, Ed Sheeran, Dan Snow and Adele. Never mind the evidence, the judicial decisions and the legislation, it just didn’t happen (as they say in Cairo).
More Secret Marriages!

Nov 27, 2021

anniversaries, battles, humour, law, religion

Anne Boleyn, Barnet, Bishop of Liverpool, cartoons, Catherine of Aragon, Charles Brandon, Dan Snow, denialists, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, George IV, Henry VIII, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Edwina Grosvenor, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, Maria Fitzherbert, Mary “Tudor”, pre-contract, Richard of Warwick, Royal Marriage Secrets, secret marriage, Twitter

Back in 2010, historian Dan Snow was married in secret to Lady Edwina Grosvenor, daughter of the Duke of Westminster. I’ve looked but I can’t see that Dan mentions Edward IV‘s probable ‘secret marriage’ to Eleanor Talbot in any of his Twitter or other postings on history. (He did once post a very entertaining picture…
A new documentary about Shakespeare….

Aug 9, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, law, religion, The play’s the thing

Alice Loxton, Dan Snow, secret marriage, Stratford, William Shakespeare

Dan Snow (who married in secret, although nobody has ever done that) and Alice Loxton have been filming in Stratford-upon-Avon for a new documentary about Shakespeare, to be released in September. I do hope it’s sensible!