Welcome to the Anne Boleyn Files – Find Anne Boleyn Resources

The NPG Portrait of Anne Boleyn
The famous NPG portrait
I’ve been posting on the Anne Boleyn Files since February 2009, so there are many thousands of posts on here and an incredible amount of information on Anne Boleyn, her life, times as queen and her fall in 1536, as well as lots of information about Tudor times and other Tudor characters.

Sometimes, with such a busy site, it can be hard to find things, although you can use the search box and look at the categories, so I thought I’d highlight some Anne Boleyn resources for you.

Anne Boleyn Primary Sources

You may not be able to visit the British Library or National Archives, or even get to the UK, but did you know that lots of contemporary accounts, letters, ambassadors’ dispatches and chronicles have been transcribed and digitised?

You can find useful links by clicking here.

The Early Life of Anne Boleyn

Find out all about Anne Boleyn’s background, her family, her upbringing, time on the Continent, and her return to England in my series of posts looking at Anne Boleyn’s early life – click here.

Henry VIII’s love letters to Anne Boleyn

King Henry VIII bombarded Anne Boleyn with love letters when he was attempting to woo her and thankfully they have survived. They are housed in the Vatican Archives but have also been transcribed.
Click here to read them.

A timeline of Henry VIII’s relationship with Anne Boleyn

We don’t know exactly when Henry VIII noticed Anne Boleyn, who was serving as a lady to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, but it appears that Anne accepted the king’s proposal of marriage around New Year 1528. I have created a timeline of their relationship between that time and the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth, showing key events, and you can view it by clicking here.

1533 – Anne Boleyn becomes queen

1533 was an eventful year for Anne Boleyn. She married King Henry VIII in secret, was officially proclaimed queen and crowned, and she gave birth to a little girl who would become Elizabeth I. Click here to find out more about the events of 1533.

The Fall of Anne Boleyn -the events of 1536

Anne Boleyn’s rise to become queen was dramatic, but her fall in 1536 was even more dramatic and also tragic. You can find out all about the events leading up to her execution on 19 May 1536 in my series of posts, which are listed here.

Video Resources

As well as writing blog posts on Anne Boleyn, I have also recorded a multitude of videos on her. Here are some of my Anne Boleyn playlists:

The Fall of Anne Boleyn

Questions about Anne Boleyn

George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, brother of Anne Boleyn

Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn reports

You can receive 5 Anne Boleyn reports by signing up to my mailing list. You’ll get:

  • REPORT: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
  • REPORT: The Other Boleyn Girl – Fact or Fiction?
  • REPORT: Anne Boleyn’s Love Life
  • BOOK LIST: Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII Books
  • PLUS: an ANNE BOLEYN PRIMARY SOURCE LIST

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The Life of Anne Boleyn online course

You can find out even more about Anne Boleyn in my 15 unit (18 video lessons) online course. Go to https://medievalcourses.com/overview/life-anne-boleyn-mc06/ to find out more.

Claire Ridgway’s books on Anne Boleyn

I’ve written books on Anne Boleyn, the Boleyns and Tudor history, which you can find on Amazon and via other retailers. They’re available as paperbacks and Kindle editions, and they’re also in the Kindle Unlimited library.

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9 thoughts on “Welcome to the Anne Boleyn Files – Find Anne Boleyn Resources”
      1. Who would ever have thought it Claire, Ann dreamed she would be the ancestor of generations of English monarchs, instead her older sister unassuming and possessing no ambition merely to be happy has that honour.

  1. Has there ever been any consideration or any publication on, the fact that both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn both suffered bouts of sweating sickness prior to attempting to bear childen and the effects that could have posed to their reproductive systems? Just a thought, I’ve never heard anyone venture an opinion about.

    1. No, I’ve never read anything about sweating sickness and their reproductive health, so that’s an interesting point. We don’t know for sure that Catherine did have sweating sickness, although I think that she did.

  2. It is a good point because doctors still don’t know what long term effects covid has had on the body, some are suffering from the effects of long covid and feel very listless and finding it hard to get back to normal, doctors do not know why some people died and some survived, in some cases like Kate Garraways husband he is permanently in a wheelchair, and there is another case of a British female athlete who has found that covid like Derek Garraway, has wrecked her life, she has lost the use of her legs and her career is over, it is very sad and tragic, in Anne’s day the sweat was greatly to be feared and more young noble men died out of any category, because she was a prominent person we know she caught it as so did her brother father and brother in law, and Cardinal Wolsey, but there must have been many fatalities amongst the working class some whom must have been women, it is fascinating if these women whom names we will never know suffered from reproductive problems as well.

  3. When I saw the book Hunting the Falcon, I knew immediately it would be on my list to get!!
    Loved your review and I have to say that Anne was Anne!! Can’t compare her to anyone. I totally agree that Thomas Boleyn was not mean and also that Anne did not “throw herself at the king” or in any way push him to marry her. I would love to have this book as you describe all the new information in their relationship.
    Thank you for a great review!! Even more interested in ot now!!

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