Talks by Leanda de Lisle

Posted on 30th June 2013 by Tamise

Leanda de Lisle has posted details at her blog about talks she is giving about the Princes in the Tower in August.

Leanda de Lisle

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‘Lady Jayne’ back on display

Posted on 29th June 2013 by Tamise

The ‘Lady Jayne’ portrait discovered in a house in Streatham in January 2006 is currently on display at Montacute House in Somerset.

Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey) (c) National Portrait Gallery

Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey)
(c) National Portrait Gallery

Acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, it was on display in Room 3 of the Tudor Galleries between spring 2007 and April 2009 and at the entrance to the ‘Lady Jane Grey’ display at the National Portrait Gallery from December 2009 until 15th August 2010.

This is the second supposed portrait of Lady Jane to be on show at Montacute. ‘Unknown woman, formerly known as Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey)’ was on display as part of the ‘On the Nature of Women: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits of Women 1535-1620′ between April and October 2008 and March and November 2009.

Montacute House

National Portrait Gallery – Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey)

National Portrait Gallery – Unknown woman, formerly known as Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey)

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The Culture (Sunday Times) chooses best history books of the summer

Posted on 23rd June 2013 by Tamise


The best history books of the summer chosen by The Sunday Times Culture Magazine include:

Elizabeth’s Bedfellows
by Anna Whitelock

‘This intimate look at the ladies of Elizabeth I’s court is dazzling and fresh.’

The Children of Henry VIII
by John Guy
‘Involving study of the bitter feuds of Henry VIII’s offspring.’

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England
by Ian Mortimer
What life in 16th-century England was really like.’

p.32-33, The Culture, Sunday Times, 23 June 2013.

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The Women of the Wars of the Roses – Woman’s Hour

Posted on 16th June 2013 by Tamise


Helen Castor and Philippa Gregory discuss the women behind the Wars of the Roses on BBC 4’s Woman’s Hour.

Woman’s Hour – The White Queen

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Books 2013: On Sale Now…

Posted on 10th June 2013 by Tamise


30 May 2013 – The Tudor Rose: Princess Mary Rose, Henry VIII’s Sister by Jennifer Kewley Draskau


(c) The History Press

(c) The History Press

‘The beautiful sister of Henry VIII, the spoiled darling of the court, Princess Mary Rose Tudor was married off to the ailing King of France against her will, and, after his death, had to fight for the right to marry Henry’s favourite companion, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. After bearing him four children, Mary Rose died in the full flower of her beauty. Her adored husband, too busy to attend her funeral, soon married the 14-year-old fiancee of their only surviving son, who shortly thereafter died of TB. Her older daughter, Frances, was the mother of the ill-fated Jane Grey, the ‘Nine Days Queen.’ Her second daughter, Eleanor, was the grandmother of Fernando, 5th Earl of Derby, intended by Henry VIII to inherit the throne after Elizabeth. The Tudor Rose is the previously untold story of Mary Tudor and the role she and her descendants played in Tudor England.’

From Amazon.co.uk

Further details

The History Press

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