Sunday, 28 October 2012

Saint Jude and Me

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"Hope doth lead from day to day." - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England (1507-1536) Today is the feast day of Saint Jude the Apostl...
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Saturday, 20 October 2012

Anne Boleyn's pregnancies: stress or sorrow?

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Claire Ridgway, whose new book On This Day in Tudor History is out next month ( very excited), gives her take on the debate about Anne B...
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Tuesday, 9 October 2012

"I carried you"

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I think Footprints was maybe the first example of religious poetry that I can distinctly remember encountering as a child. Recently, I...
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Friday, 5 October 2012

Long to reign over us: A brief history of the British monarchy (Part 2)

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Her Majesty the Queen is the second-longest reigning  monarch in British history, so far. She acceded to the throne following the death of...
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Monday, 1 October 2012

Long to reign over us: a brief history of the British monarchy (Part 1)

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Above:  The German-born King George II, who ruled Britain between 1727 and 1760; he was the last British ruler to lead his army into b...
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Obituary: Professor Eric W. Ives (1931 - 2012)

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Meeting people who are gifted, bright and talented is always a pleasure and one I had always wanted to hear was Eric Ives - or Professo...
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Friday, 28 September 2012

Missing Royals and Murder Mysteries: Anastasia and the allure of romance

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The story of Anastasia Romanov is one of the great melodramas of royal history. In life, the real Grand Duchess Anastasia was the teen...
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