Saturday, 31 July 2010

"The Friend of True Piety": The Life of Matilda of Flanders, Queen of England

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This is the first in a new series chartering the lives of the Queens of England . “She was even more distinguished for the purity of her...
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An Apology

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On my post for July 22nd about the banned posters advertising the London Dungeon's new exhibition about the reign of Mary Tudor, I discu...
Thursday, 29 July 2010

"What if?": A new review of "Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions" (2010)

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"And so it remains my own hunch that Anne had indeed committed adultery with Norris, probably with Smeaton, possibly with Weston, and...
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Ritual Shaming of the North Korean Football Team

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As if any more proof was needed, the sheer horror of living in a Communist country is shown by this news story, in which the North Korean fo...
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Thursday, 22 July 2010

Controversy over banned "Bloody Mary" poster

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A lurid and frightening poster advertising the London Dungeons' forthcoming exhibition on the religious persecutions during the reign ...
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010

The Finnebrogue Estates in Northern Ireland

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Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland offers a fantastic account of one of the oldest and finest homes of the Protestant Ascendancy in Ulster - ...
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Saturday, 17 July 2010

Sixteen Nuns Slaughtered on the Steps of the Guillotine

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"I learned from a person who was a witness to their martyrdom that the youngest of these good Carmelites was called first and that she ...