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

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/

Страта Марії Стюарт.
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/lukazufiso

#МаріяСтюарт #ІсторіяЄвропи #АнгліяXVIст #Монархія #ПолітичнаБоротьба
#MaryStuart #EuropeanHistory #TudorEngland #Monarchy #PowerStruggle

#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/

So #romantisch!

#KätToon #Valentinstag #ValentinesDay #Satire #Romantik #Tudorengland

‘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

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