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The Anne Boleyn Cult

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There was a brilliant article in yesterday's "Independent" by Howard Brenton, the playwright responsible for the play "Anne…

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Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I’s Golden Age

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Author Robert Parry has written a series of articles over at The Elizabeth Files - see Cambridge Connections…

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Anne Boleyn and the Cambridge Connection

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how, at the end of April 1536, Anne Boleyn had asked…

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18th May 1536 – Postponement and Prayer

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On the night of the 17th/18th May 1536, while the carpenters built her scaffold within the grounds of…

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Anne Boleyn’s Letter to Henry VIII

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On the 6th May 1536, it is said that Anne Boleyn wrote the following letter to her husband,…

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From Tennis to Tower – Anne Boleyn is Arrested

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At dawn on the 2nd May 1536 Henry Norris, Henry VIII's Groom of the Stool and great friend,…

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The May Day Joust – Trouble in Tudor Paradise

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(or Henry Norris with the dead men's shoes at the May Day Joust!) The May Day joust of…

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Catherine of Aragon involved in scandal?