Tudor Cooking with Claire – Soul Cakes
As today is Halloween and it was traditional for medieval people to go "souling" at Hallowtide, I thought…
October 2015
31 October – Halloween or All Hallows Eve
A modern trick or treaterAll Hallows Eve, or Halloween as it's more commonly referred to today, is celebrated…
Tudor Life November Magazine Out Now!
Death, death and more death... Yes, in the Tudor period, early November with the Feast of All Souls…
27 October 1532 – Anne Boleyn in masking apparel
On 25th October 1532, Henry VIII and Francis I, King of France, arrived at Calais, which was English…
25 October 1529 – Sir Thomas More is made Lord Chancellor
On 25th October 1529, Sir Thomas More was made Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor following the fall of Cardinal…
24 October 1537 – Queen Jane Seymour dies
Jane Seymour by Anthony Cardon On 24th October 1537 Queen Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII,…
Tudor cooking with Claire
I had such fun this week with my 'Claire Chats' weekly video for the Tudor Society that I…