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5 days ago · Secrets of the women who served the Tudor Queens revealed in academic’s new book - University of Chichester. A book about the ladies-in-waiting who served the six wives of Henry VIII by a senior lecturer at the University of Chichester will be published next week (26 April).
2 days ago · 11 total actors. Kitty Flanagan. as Helen Tudor-Fisk (13 episodes) Kitty Flanagan portrays the character of Helen Tudor-Fisk in Fisk. Helen is a determined and intelligent woman who works as a high-powered lawyer. Kitty Flanagan brings her acting prowess to bring out the complexities of Helen's character. # 2. Most popular actor on Fisk.
4 days ago · The Tudor Economy Whatever the economic facts, York thought itself in an advanced state of decline at the accession of the first Tudor. As early as 1487 the corporation had petitioned the king for assistance in consideration of its great ruin and decay.
5 days ago · 1509 - 1547. 21 April 1509. Henry VII died and his son Henry VIII succeeds to the throne. 1513. 30 June 1513. A 35,000-strong English army, led by Henry VIII, lands at Calais, which is ruled by England. 9 September 1513. King James IV of Scotland is killed at the Battle of Flodden. James's son becomes James V of Scotland at the age of 18 months.
5 days ago · Few social and cultural developments of the Tudor age are so important as the multiplication of books and the spread of literary habits. Long a great centre of manuscript production, York acquired its first printer in Frederick Freez, who became a freeman in 1497 as a bookbinder and stationer, but actually appears as 'book printer' in 1510 ...
5 days ago · Dr Helen Pierce, review of The Public Face of Early Modern England Artfully Revealed, (review no. 1421) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1421. Date accessed: 23 May, 2024. As Richard Steele opined in one 1712 edition of The Spectator, a predilection for portraiture in post-Reformation England was something both recognised and respected by ...
3 days ago · THEY WERE SO YOUNG. Memorial Day and the old folks come. And stand in the sun feeling sad and dumb. The boys in the ground—there are so many, They’re eighteen, nineteen, maybe twenty—. They just moved out of a boy’s bedroom. And went to war, now they lie in a tomb.
