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Apart from a few minor details …

Jul 7, 2015

buildings, law, television reviews

“Princes”, Annette Carson, Buckingham Palace, Channel Four, David Starkey, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, Guildhall, Sir James Tyrrell, Susan Leas, Thomas Penn, Tower of London

… David Starkey thinks that he has solved the mystery of the “Princes”. The minor details are: 1) Tyrrell’s trial was for helping the de la Pole brothers, not to do with any “murder” of anyone at all. 2) The (fully documented by Thomas Penn) trial took place at the Guildhall, not the Tower. Henry…
Review of ‘The “Princes” in the Tower’ (Channel 4)

Mar 25, 2015

television reviews

“Tudors”, Anne Boleyn, Annette Carson, Bertram Fields, bigamy, Christine Carpenter, David Starkey, Edward V, Hastings, Henry VII, Janina Ramirez, John Ashdown-Hill, Josephine Josepha Wilkinson, Richard III, Robert Stillington, Sir James Tyrrell, Susan Leas, Thomas More, trial, Weir

There were many good things about this programme. Dr. Janina Ramirez joined Dr. John Ashdown-Hill and the lawyer Bertram Fields. All three have studied the late medieval period in detail and in different ways. Then there was Dr. David Starkey. He is a renowned expert on the 1509-1603 period but tends to derive his views…