Afghanistan needs a Henry VII

This is all very interesting.

Blogger Michael White writes,

"I'd wager that what the suffering Afghans need most is the Henry VII who won the Battle of Bosworth Field, a tough, tightfisted central ruler who could manage the warlords and promote such basics as trade, clean water, and (we've moved on since 1485) education for girls."

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The Anne Boleyn Experience!!!

From the Anne Boleyn files...

"The Anne Boleyn Experience 2010 is the ultimate Anne Boleyn event, being set in Anne Boleyn’s own home, rather than a hotel. It is also a luxury tour featuring beautiful rooms, interesting speakers and fantastic, top quality food. The fact that it is all-inclusive (except your initial transport to the meeting place in London) means that you don’t have to worry about buying meals and entrance tickets - we’ve handled it all for you."

If only I had more money...

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Joely Richardson to play Catherine Parr

"Nip/Tuck" star Joely Richardson will be playing Catherine Parr in the fourth and last season of "The Tudors"!

Richardson is the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave.

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The fourth season is currently being shot in Dublin and will air in 2010.

Dry the Mary Rose!

Mary Rose is the only 16th century worship on display in the world, and currently, it needs to be sprayed "with a waxy solution to preserve its timbers."

But scientists are looking to find a way to dry it out to preserve it.

"Researchers are now working on developing a treatment for the wood to extract compounds within it where it was in contact with iron, such as bolts or artefacts like cannons. If they can do that then it will mean the ship will not have to be continually sprayed. "

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State Papers Online, part 2

State Papers, Part II is now avaliable here!

Key themes of Part II include:

• Mary, Queen of Scots: captivity, trial and execution
• French wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots (1562-98)
• 1541 Act raising Ireland into a Kingdom annexed to the Crown of England
• Henry VIII’s ‘rough wooing’ of Scotland
• England’s defeat of Philip II of Spain’s Grand Armada in 1588
• Beginning of 80-year war between Spain and the Netherlands in 1566
• England's relations with the Barbary States, Denmark, Flanders, France, Genoa, Holy Roman Empire, German States, Hambery and Hanse Towns, Holland and Flanders, Italian State and Rome, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Savoy and Sardinia, Sicily and Naples, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Tuscany and Venice
• Letters to and from the English agents in Scotland: the ambassadors Randolphe, Killigrew and the two Bowes, and the secretarial assistant Nicolson
• Extents and valors of the possessions of dissolved religious houses in Ireland, and those attainted of high treason, including Gerald, Earl of Kildare (1540-1583).

I think it's only allowed for schools/institutions at this point, otherwise, I'd be all over it!

Mary Boleyn Book Out

Okay, I'm a little behind, but there is a new book on Mary Boleyn out!

Mary Boleyn: The true Story of Henry's mistress

Historical Tweets

This is a riot!