Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Friday, 7 November 2014

Royal inbreeding: how reliable is one of history's most popular stories?

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The Hapsburg Emperor Leopold I by Jan Thomas van Leperen, c. 1667 Portraits of the slack-jawed and bug-eyed Hapsburgs, hair fair and st...
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014

Competition winner!

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Many congratulations to Libby, who won the competition to receive a copy of Sara Cockerill's new book, Eleanor of Castile: The Shado...
Saturday, 11 October 2014

Out of the Shadows: Review and Giveaway of "Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen" by Sara Cockerill

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It is often stated that writing a biography of a medieval person, particularly a woman, is impossible and that any effort will descend i...
Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Review: "Inside the Tudor Court" by Lauren Mackay

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I once came across a comment on-line from Lauren Mackay fairly highlighting the difference between a blogger and an historian, and rath...
Friday, 11 May 2012

The sinking of the "Príncipe de Asturias"

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The Príncipe de Asturias was built in Scotland in 1912 and, along with her sister ship the Infanta Isabel , she was one of the largest s...
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Friday, 4 November 2011

The Kings and Queens of Spain

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So, after posting on the Kings of France and England, here's a list of the Kings and Queens of Spain which, it has to be said, is a p...
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011

27th September, 1501: Katherine of Aragon sets sail for England

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On The Anne Boleyn Files, Claire Ridgeway discusses the day the fifteen year-old Katherine of Aragon left her native Spain to marry into t...
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Friday, 16 September 2011

Review of a new biography of Mary Tudor

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The superb blog Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen reviews yet another biography of Queen Mary Tudor, by Oxford linguist and historian, John Edw...
Monday, 11 July 2011

The Assassination of William the Silent

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Author Stephanie A. Mann takes a look at the notorious assassination of Prince William "the Silent" of Orange in 1584, by Baltha...
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Friday, 21 January 2011

Defending Katherine of Aragon

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As part of a new series of articles, Claire Ridgway, creator of The Anne Boleyn Files and its sister site The Elizabeth Files , will be writ...
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Saturday, 1 January 2011

Hello, 2011!

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Well, A.D. 2010 has been and gone and today is January 1st, 2011 - New Year's Day in the United Kingdom since the reign of King George ...
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Sunday, 4 April 2010

Easter Sunday

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"They returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. Now they were Mary Magdalene and Johanna ...
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