It’s December already, and that means Tudor Advent fun begins!
Enjoy a new historical treat every day until Christmas Eve on The Anne Boleyn Files (or on YouTube!).
Start the countdown here:
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/2025-anne-boleyn-files-advent-calendar/
I can't quite believe that it's been a year since I was posting about the last Advent calendar, but here we are in December 2025 already! As always, I've got some Tudor history treats in store for you. They're so much better than chocolate, or gin, or whatever else they're putting in Advent calendars now!
#OTD in 1542: Robert Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex, died at Chelsea. From a father accused of treason to Henry VIII’s trusted Lord Great Chamberlain, he survived the dangers of Tudor politics in remarkable style.
https://www.tudorsociety.com/robert-radcliffe-1st-earl-of-essex-quite-the-tudor-survivor/
On this day in Tudor history, 26th November 1542, Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, died a natural death at Chelsea, no mean feat for a man who served King Henry VIII! His father had been charged with treason, but Sussex rose to be a trusted royal insider. He navigated the Reformation, royal marriages, rebellions, and thrived...
On this day in Tudor history, 13 Nov 1537, Queen Jane Seymour, Henry VIII’s beloved third wife & mother of Edward VI, was laid to rest.
Her final journey was grand, her resting places… two.
On this day in Tudor history, 13 November 1537, Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII and mother of King Edward VI, was laid to rest in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Jane had died on 24th October 1537, twelve days after giving birth to her son, plunging the court and kingdom into grief. I talk about Jane's final journey from Hampton Court Palace to Windsor, her funeral, and also how her remains were actually buried in TWO places...
On this day in 1555, Queen Mary I’s Parliament passed the Second Statute of Repeal, restoring papal authority and undoing decades of reform.
For three brief years, England was Catholic again.
Read more 👉 https://www.tudorsociety.com/mary-i-turns-back-the-clock-decades/
On this day in Tudor history, 12th November 1555, with the passing of the Second Statute of Repeal, Queen Mary I turned back the religious clock decades. This Parliamentary act abolished every piece of legislation that had been passed against the Papacy since 1529, restoring papal authority and reuniting England with the Catholic Church of Rome once more. One thing it didn't change, though, was the English monarchs status as supreme head of the Church in England. And what about the land and property granted or sold to nobles from the dissolution of the monasteries? What did Mary I do about that? Let me tell you...
On this day in Tudor history, 4th November 1551, theologian, royal chaplain, and scholar John Redman, the first Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, died of consumption. Redman was one of Tudor England’s most brilliant and balanced minds, a man who sought to reconcile faith, scholarship, and conscience in an age of division. He served both Henry VIII and Edward VI, and tried to tread a middle way, defending traditional Catholic ideas while embracing elements of reform...
Places Connected to Witchcraft [witch accusations] in England
https://heritagecalling.com/2024/10/10/7-places-connected-to-witchcraft-in-england/
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