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She ain't heavy, she's my mother
In 1603 James VI of Scotland and I of England had a full and challenging in-tray.
He had been king of Scotland for thirty-seven years, ever since he was thirteen months old. Now, since the death of Elizabeth I on 24 March 1603, he was king...
Digging up kings #7½
A p.s. to the tale of the three weeks in 1869 when the Dean of Westminster Abbey went digging in Henry VII’s Chapel for royal bones
One of the reasons I’ve been telling these stories is that I’m fascinated by the cultural shifts (as...
Digging up kings #7
Finding James I (and everyone else) in Westminster Abbey
You’d think it would be quite hard to lose a king once he was buried.
How to read the Paston Letters #13
'Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives!'
Welcome to our read-along of the Paston Letters, the correspondence of a fifteenth-century gentry family who lived through the Wars of the Roses, one letter at a time.
The pen and the sword
In my last post I told the story of the dashing Sir Henry Lee, Champion at the Tilt and Master of the Leash to Elizabeth I.
In passing, I mentioned that Henry’s father Anthony Lee, whose brother-in-law was the poet Thomas Wyatt, also tried...
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