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Cardinal Wolsey's musings on Tudor history, medieval history, early-modern history and anything else that takes his fancy
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Cardinal Wolsey's blog stats for April in case you are interested:Visits: 821Pageloads: 1292New visits: 87%Of the 821 unique visits,337 were from the USA (Hi to all readers in the former colonies),247 from UK,63 from Canada,49...
St. George's Day Kebab and The Bard's Birthday
April 23 is not only St.George's Day (complete with themed websites and merchandising), but also the date that Shakespeare's birthday in 1564 is celebrated.We don't actually know his exact birth date, but he did expire on 23rd April 1616, so there is...
Carnivalesque XXXVIII is up...
Carnivalesque XXXVIII is up at Walking the Berkshires. Lots of interesting Early-Modern posts from last 2 months or so.Oh yes, and today is the day that Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, aged 17. The painting by an unknown artist shows Henry...
Purple Haze: Medieval Mix
The trailer for BBC4's current Medieval Season features a nifty folk remix of Hendrix's Purple Haze, with accompanying psychedelic graphics. "Take a trip into the medieval mind" with the emphasis on trip, man....
Tudor Bloopers!
Although some felt that Season 1 of "The Tudors" was one long out-take, see Cardinal Wolsey's Vodpod for a selection of sometimes hilarious forgotten lines, corpsing and general banter by the cast, courtesy of the great historical research tool "Ye...
