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Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Duchess of Suffolk
Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Duchess of Suffolk By Susan Abernethy We would like to continue our series on Tudor queens by examining the life of Mary Tudor, the younger sister of King Henry VIII....
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The Wives of Henry VIII
The Wives of Henry VIII Each biography written by Susan Abernethy Henry VIII, King of England, ruled his country from 1509 to 1537. His reign saw war with France, the Dissolution of the Monasteries,...
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Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland
Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland By Susan Abernethy Margaret Tudor was the eldest daughter of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. She was the elder sister of Henry VIII and Mary Tudor,...
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Face of 16th-century English archer revealed
Researchers at Swansea University, working with a Swedish expert, have revealed how they reconstructed the face of one of Henry VIII’s elite archers, who drowned aboard the warship Mary Rose in 1545....
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Mary Boleyn
Mary Boleyn By Susan Abernethy Most people know the story of Anne Boleyn, the second of King Henry VIII’s six wives. Few people know that Anne had an older sister Mary who was the mistress of two...
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Medieval Pet Names
People in the Middle Ages did keep pets – dogs, cats, birds, monkeys and many other kinds of animals. Although they often had particular duties – i.e. hunting or catching rats – there are many accounts...
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Elizabethan child actors were kidnapped and abused, researcher finds
For young boys living in Elizabethan London, one of the dangers they faced was being kidnapped by theatre owners and forced to perform. This practice was even supported by Queen Elizabeth I. Research...
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Margaret Roper, Daughter of Sir Thomas More
Margaret Roper, Daughter of Sir Thomas More By Susan Abernethy There is no greater tale of a father and daughter relationship than the story of Sir Thomas More and his Dearest Meg, his eldest daughter...
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Book Review: The Crown, by Nancy Bilyeau
The Crown Nancy Bilyeau Publishers: Simon & Schuster (2012) This book delves into the adventures of Dominican nun, Joanna Stafford. Set during the Protestant Reformation, this intriguing story...
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Face of Mary, Queen of Scots brought to life
The face of Mary, Queen of Scots, as she would have looked at the time of her reign, has been brought back to life by a renowned team of experts from the University of Dundee. The team were...
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Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox By Susan Abernethy Margaret Douglas, sometimes styled “Princess of Scotland”, was the daughter of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland and her second husband,...
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Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions
Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions Jennifer Lillian Lodine-Chaffey (The University of Montana) Master of Arts in English Literature, The University of Montana Missoula, MT May...
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Long-lost toys of late-Victorian children discovered by archaeologists
A collection of long lost toys, just unearthed by a team of archaeologists at The University of Manchester, have shone new light on the commercialisation of childhood by the late Victorians. The...
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Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas More By Susan Abernethy Recently I wrote a piece on Margaret Roper, the daughter of Sir Thomas More for our women’s history blog and it reminded me of something. My parents took me to see a...
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Artist to the Tudors
Hans Holbein the Younger, Artist to the Tudors By Susan Abernethy There’s a reason why we know who the principal players were on the stage of the court of King Henry VIII of England. And there’s a...
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Ludicrous or lucid? Medieval costumes and royal politics in mid-nineteenth...
Ludicrous or lucid? Medieval costumes and royal politics in mid-nineteenth century Britain By Ian Hunter VIDES: MLA Volume of Interdisciplinary Essays, Volume 1 (2013) Abstract: This paper explores the...
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The Guinea Pig as a pet in Tudor England
A little known painting of three Elizabethan children containing what may be the first portrait of a guinea pig has been uncovered by the National Portrait Gallery in London. It will be on display...
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Sir Francis Walsingham
Sir Francis Walsingham By Susan Abernethy Queen Elizabeth I had a triumvirate of intelligent, capable and industrious men who served on her council for many years. There was William Cecil, Lord...
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The Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London By Susan Abernethy London in the mid-17th Century was the third largest city in the world and the largest in the British Isles with a population of roughly 300,000 people. It...
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Researchers recreate unfinished Tudor tombs
Researchers at the University of Leicester have recreate two Tudor tomb monuments that were never completed. The tombs originally were intended to stand in Thetford Priory and were planned by Thomas...
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