Start of a new documentary series about Queen Catherine Howard, fifth wife of #HenryVIII, who was executed for treason on this day in 1542 at the age of 18 (Henry was 51 at the time). Like one of her predecessors, Queen Anne Boleyn, we know she didn’t commit the crimes she was convicted of.

The series is hosted by Tudor-era historian Suzannah Lipscomb.

#TudorEngland

https://access.historyhit.com/videos/katherine-howard-vixen-or-victim-1

Katherine Howard: Vixen or Victim? - Episode One - Season 1 - History Hit

Katherine Howard, executed in 1542 for adultery and treason, has long polarised opinion - portrayed either as a promiscuous good-time-girl or an abused young woman. Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb investigates the truth behind Henry VIII's fifth wife. In this first episode, Suzannah visits Chesworth ...

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Bosworth Field marked the end of Richard III and the rise of Tudor rule.

The regime avoided romanticizing defeat. Instead, it constructed legitimacy through narrative control.

How states treat fallen rulers shapes political memory.

#History #TudorEngland #BosworthField #Brewminate

https://brewminate.com/defeat-without-apotheosis-bosworth-field-and-the-tudor-refusal-to-heroize-loss/

Bosworth Field and Why Defeat Was Never Honored

How the Tudors remembered Bosworth Field without honoring defeated claimants, using memory control to secure legitimacy after the Wars of the Roses.

Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas

#Elizabethan #PowerPlayer
Besides the queen, Bess of Hardwick was the wealthiest woman in #ElizabethanEngland. She outlived 4 husbands, rising in status with each one as she shrewdly managed her growing portfolio of properties. Learn more about this fascinating businesswoman, featured in our current exhibition How to Be a Power Player: Tudor Edition

Social climbing was a competitive sport in #TudorEngland, requiring a complex range of skills, strategies, and techniques.
https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/power-player-exhibition/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ShakespearePlus30Jul2025&utm_content=version_A&promo=

"If ye love me" by Thomas #Tallis (c.1505–1585), recorded at low pitch by members of #TheGesualdoSix, directed by #OwainPark.
... from The Gesualdo Six’s first album, ‘English Motets’, a programme linking two hundred years of music from medieval and #TudorEngland (available here: http://bit.ly/2Fmp8Od)
Tallis served under four monarchs: Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.

If ye love me, keep my commandments... - John 14: 15-17
https://youtu.be/yHe2FDlHHa8?si=XKzxX2YS0ZpZqQ9j (2:51)

Witness the rise and fall of Thomas Wolsey in historian Alison Weir's latest historical fiction novel. Tudor England is full of intrigue, which makes a great book! Review--> #Bookthreads #BookSky #BookBlogger #TheCardinal #BallantineBooks #AlisonWeir #ThomasWolsey #TudorEngland #HenryVIII

http://bargain-sleuth.com/2025/06/08/%f0%9f%93%9athe-cardinal-by-alison-weir-bookreview-ballantinebooks-arcreview-historicalfiction-tudorengland/

📚The Cardinal by Alison Weir #BookReview #BallantineBooks #ARCReview #HistoricalFiction #TudorEngland

Step into the thrill and intrigue of Tudor England in the rich, compelling new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Alison Weir – and witness the rise and fall of Cardinal Wolsey. Most books me…

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Restoration Completed on Historic Tudor Gallery at The Vyne - Medievalists.net

The most elaborately decorated Tudor gallery in Europe—once visited by Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, and Anne Boleyn—has been restored after a major conservation effort. The National Trust has completed a six-month project to stabilise and preserve the 500-year-old Oak Gallery at The Vyne in Hampshire, securing its future for generations to come.

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‘Religion and the Decline of Magic’ by Keith Thomas is a classic, beautifully written study of magical belief in Renaissance England. Worth reading on its own merits, but hugely valuable to me as a fantasy worldbuilder.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6621365952

#history #magic #religion #belief #religionandbelief #tudorengland #renaissance #renaissanceengland #keiththomas #religionandthedeclineofmagic #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Oliver Arditi's review of Religion and the Decline of Magic

4/5: I read this book on Hilary Mantel's recommendation—by which I mean that she wrote about it, in one of the essays collected in A memoir of my former self. It should be obvious why it was of interest to her, as Keith Thomas's Religion and the decline of magic is a historical account of magical beliefs in the English Renaissance, the place and time in which Mantel's best known work is set. Her Cromwell trilogy is singularly well-crafted, in the way that it gives contemporary readers the sense that they are looking out at the world through the eyes of a man native to Tudor England. Understandin...

On this day in 1603, Joan Wadham died. Her legal battle with the queen over swans will feature in Unsung Women in Somerset (Junior Edition)!

#swans #tudors #tudorEngland #historicalwomen #Somerset