I admit, the title is somewhat misleading: technically, Hanukkah was not celebrated in Tudor England because Jews had been expelled from the land some 300…
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Category: Tudor Tidbits
I hope you are all at home and isolated and hunkered down with all the essentials you need so that we can flatten the COVID-19…
Agecroft Hall is a Tudor manor house that was originally erected in Lancashire in the 16th century – and is currently tucked away in leafy…
Wardships were an important feature in Tudor England. All lands and titles in England were the property of the crown. The sovereign could and would…
I originally wrote this post as part of the Spectacular Historical Fiction Writers’ December Blog Hop – of course I chose to write about the…
I met Cassidy at TudorCon – she hosts the wonderful podcast That Shakespeare Life (new episodes every Monday!) and immediately knew I wanted her to…
I posted last month about the exciting search for a Tudor banqueting house that would be going on at Sudeley Castle during the last two…
A banqueting house was a “separate pavilion-like building reached through the gardens from the main residence.” They became very popular during the Tudor era –…
This is a guest post from the wonderful Brigitte Webster, founder and owner of the amazing Tudor & 17th Century Experience, an exquisite living history…
It has been quite some time since I have posted a “Tudor Tidbit” rather than an “On This Day” post, but given the continuing enthusiasm…