Cardinal Wolsey's musings on Tudor history, medieval history, early-modern history and anything else that takes his fancy
Recent PostsCooking the Books is the blog of the Tudor Kitchens cookery project at Hampton Court Palace.Learn how they interpret original recipes like this one:Roast BeefSalmon Fress BoiledCapon StewedRyse of GenoaStrawberye...
A relaxing way to spend a cold winter evening is to pour a (large) glass of sherry and get stuck into a jigsaw featuring one of Hendrick Avercamp's wonderful paintings of 17th century Dutch winter landscapes.The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has posted an...
I recently stumbled the Virtual Exhibitions page of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF to its friends), which conveniently has an English translation button.The site a) looks fab and b) has plenty of interesting content.Enlightenment ("Lumier...
Today we have a mystery photo: can anyone identify the location? It has a famous Tudor connection...[Photo Copyright the author]...
Every history fan should have one of these Medieval Trebuchets on their desk, or alternatively an equally effective Roman Onager - according the the blurb the range is up to 20 feet, so plenty of scope for office mayhem......
One of the fun things you can do with a website tracking tool such as Statcounter is to look at the sometimes odd search strings or keywords people enter into Google (or occasionally Yahoo, or sometimes the new-fangled Bing).Here are a few obscure on...
This blog is currently rated a 4.75 out of a possible 5 based on 8 comments.
MelisendeJust finished watching a very brief program on Hampton Court - staff got all garbed up and were cooking traditional foods with the relevant medieval equipment. Boy, glad i am not the poor lad stuck turning the spit!
Excellent as always, dear Cardinal!
OllieLove it - thorough and well written. Kudos and well done.
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MelissaSee? I knew Wolsley would have blogged if he could! Entertaining site, I plan to visit often.
Heidi CudnikI love this era and Wolsey! Great site!
earthlyparadiseGreat site. I've been a fan of Cardinal Wolsey's blog for a while now!
LindaIntriguing, well-composed site with news and commentary about all things history.
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As a 52 year old college student majoring in History, I will be checking into your blog on a regular basis. Reading Richard III in English Lit class now. great blog!
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