Author Archives: Tamise

Inside the Tower of London – Series 4 Episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4

Series 4 – Episode 1 Narrator – The Lieutenant is the second in command of the entire Tower complex and historically would have been in charge of the most high-profile prisoners from Lady Jane Grey to Guy Fawkes. Series 4 … Continue reading

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Books 2021 – on sale now – Disability and the Tudors: All the King’s Fools by Phillipa Vincent Connolly

‘Throughout history, how a society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death before the advent of modern medicine, … Continue reading

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‘The Tudors in Love’ by Sarah Gristwood added to the website…

‘The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty’ by Sarah Gristwood added to the General Works section of the bibliography. Entry added to the following: Primary Accounts – Ascham

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Books 2021 – on sale today – Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts by Nadine Akkerman

‘Elizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented – and underestimated – figures of the seventeenth century. Labelled a spendthrift more interested in the theatre and her pet monkeys than politics or her children, and long pitied as ‘The Winter Queen’, … Continue reading

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My review of ‘Disability and the Tudors’ by Phillipa Vincent-Connolly

‘Disability and the Tudors: All the King’s Fools’ gives a new view of Tudor England and the court. Phillipa thoroughly explores how disabilities were defined in those times, how disabled people were treated and what changes the effects of the … Continue reading

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