Catherine of Aragon’s Seven Years in Royal Purgatory
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Catherine Howard’s Rise and Cromwell’s Death on July 28, 1540: Sources
I read Gareth Russell’s Young and Damned and Fair a few months ago, and it was the best source for this short video on the occurrences of July 28, 1540 in Tudor England: Catherine Howard’s marriage, and her future foreshadowed in Cromwell’s fate. Sources: Russell, Gareth. Young
Thomas Cranmer & Anne Boleyn: Sources
In researching this video, I had so much fun (yes, macabre, I know) reading through the British Library's archive of the letters flying around Henry VIII's court in May, 1536. I've pulled out an excerpt from Cranmer's May 3rd letter to Henry,
Mary Queen of Scots & Henry VIII's "Rough Wooing"
When Henry VIII couldn't use the Treaty of Greenwich to take the crown of Scotland through a marriage between the infant Mary and his son Edward, he decided to burn the country to the ground. Watch on Youtube Sources: Fraser, Antonia. Mary Queen of Scots. London: Weidenfeld &
Affair of the Poisons at the Court of the Sun King: Sources
Amidst what felt like a deathly cold in late March, I was reading about arsenic poisonings to make myself feel better (as one does when you're ill). It was during this week that I came across the Affair of the Poisons the scandalized the court of King Louis