New image of Henry VIII discovered

One of the earliest and most remarkable depictions of the prince who was to become England’s King Henry VIII has been discovered at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. Poignantly, he is shown as a mourning 11 year old boy, weeping at the empty death-bed of his mother.  <br /><br />A detailed re-interpretation of clues in a manuscript donated to the Library by philanthropists Miss Gwendoline and Miss Margaret Davies of Gregynog in 1921 led Manuscripts Librarian Dr Maredudd ap Huw to conclude that the volume was a long-lost treasure from the royal library of King Henry VII.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://earlymodernengland.com/2012/10/new-image-of-henry-viii-discovered/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from Early Modern England</a></b>

New image of Henry VIII discovered

One of the earliest and most remarkable depictions of the prince who was to become England’s King Henry VIII has been discovered at the Nati...

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Is ‘Tudor England’ a myth?

The term ‘Tudor’ was hardly used in the 16th Century and its obsessive modern use by historians and writers generally gives us a misleading impression of the period, an Oxford historian has found.<br /><br /> Cliff Davies of Oxford University’s History Faculty and Wadham College scoured official papers, chronicles, poems, plays and pamphlets for the ‘Tudor’ name but found it hardly used as a designation of the monarchy until the last years of Elizabeth’s reign, and even then sparingly.<br /><br /> Of the many poems written to mark the death of Elizabeth and the accession of James I in 1603, only one talks of a change from ‘Tudor’ to ‘Stuart’.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://earlymodernengland.com/2012/06/is-tudor-england-a-myth/" target="_blank"> Click here to read this article from Early Modern England</a></b>

Is ‘Tudor England’ a myth?

The term ‘Tudor’ was hardly used in the 16th Century and its obsessive modern use by historians and writers generally gives us a misleading ...

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