Anne Boleyn’s head was not put on a spike
Thank you to Jen for inspiring this post. She emailed me yesterday with the question "Was Anne Boleyn's…
May 2015
19 May 1536 – To Jesus Christ I commend my soul
I'm not sure whether Anne Boleyn got any sleep on the night of the 18th/19th May. She was…
19 May 1536 – A terrifying vision
Lambeth Palace Something strange happened in the early hours of the day Queen Anne Boleyn was executed. While…
Anne Boleyn and the Tower of London by Roland Hui
As we're focusing on Anne Boleyn's imprisonment and execution at the moment, I thought you'd all be interested…
18 May 1536 – Anne Boleyn prepares for death
On the night of 17th/18th May 1536, while the carpenters built her scaffold within the grounds of the…
In Memory of Five Innocent Men – 17 May 1536
I sometimes feel that Sir Henry Norris, Sir Francis Weston, William Brereton, Mark Smeaton and George Boleyn, Lord…
17 May 1536 – These bloody days have broken my heart
The famous Tudor poet Thomas Wyatt the Elder wrote two poems about the executions he witnessed in 1536…