Monthly Archives: April 2008

For sale – one ruined castle in Yorkshire

Posted on April 30, 2008 by

If you have a spare £1.5 million (approx. US $3 million). Regular visitors know that I love it when these old properties show up for sale. Here’s an article from The Telegraph about the sale: A 700-year-old castle which once … Continue reading →

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Artwork from The Chequers to go on display

Posted on April 29, 2008 by

Including the ring with portrait miniatures of Elizabeth I and Anne Boleyn (one of my favorite pieces from the period!). From The Daily Mail: A large group of paintings from the prime ministerial retreat Chequers, including a pair of Van … Continue reading →

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Two portraits for the price of one!

Posted on April 29, 2008 by

From the BBC: A rare portrait, believed to be of Shakespeare’s only known patron, has been discovered using X-ray technology. Art historians from Bristol University have found what they believe is a picture of Henry Wriothesley which was painted over … Continue reading →

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Portrait of Elizabeth I in Roanoke gift shop may be the real deal

Posted on April 27, 2008 by

Until recently, an oil painting of Queen Elizabeth I had been hanging, unprotected and barely noticed, in the gift shop at The Elizabethan Gardens gatehouse. It is believed that the portrait was painted in 1592, when Elizabeth would have been … Continue reading →

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Podcast on hold for a while

Posted on April 26, 2008 by

Hello all! Due to the upcoming sale of our house and move (back in to Austin proper – we’re out in a rural area near Elgin right now) my weekends are going to be completely eaten up soon. So, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Upgrading WordPress in an hour or so

Posted on April 25, 2008 by

Just a little warning that I’ll be upgrading WordPress, so the blog might be unavailable for a short time (at roughly 3 p.m. CDT). Maybe this will fix that RSS issue! Update: 3:05 p.m. – Upgrade complete! Seems to be … Continue reading →

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Showtime picks up "The Tudors" for a third season

Posted on April 23, 2008 by

It’s official.. we’ll be on to wives three and four next year! Filming will begin in June. There are a ton of articles out there about it, so here is a just a sampling: Showtime Press release USA Today – … Continue reading →

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RSS feed

Posted on April 17, 2008 by

If any of you were reading on the RSS feed and stumble back here wondering why nothing has shown up lately, it’s because WordPress doesn’t publish its feeds the same way Blogger did, so you will have to resubscribe to … Continue reading →

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Problems with the Q&A Blog

Posted on April 17, 2008 by

Just in case anyone wanders over here from the Q&A blog, I thought I would post something about the problems that are continuing with publishing from Blogger. Sometime on Friday, things just stopped working and nothing would publish from Blogger … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the new blog!

Posted on April 16, 2008 by

Since Blogger still hasn’t managed to fix the publishing problem that I (and many others) have been having for almost a week now, I’ve decided to start migrating all the blogs over to WordPress, which comes with my web hosting … Continue reading →

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WANT

Posted on April 12, 2008 by

Every once in a while a property listing will come through on my Google News alerts (like the one for Rochford Hall about this time last year) and I just melt when I see them. It also reminds me that … Continue reading →

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Cleaning and conservation work at the Tower of London

Posted on April 10, 2008 by

When I used to look through picture books of England as a child, one of the things I remember noticing in the old photos (probably mostly taken in the 60s and 70s) was the dark coating from pollution on some … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare's London church found

Posted on April 10, 2008 by

From “The Independent” Shakespeare’s “lost” local church in London may have been found – beneath some flower beds and cracked paving stones. New research has pinpointed the site of the old church of St Leonard, which was the centre of … Continue reading →

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Blast from the past

Posted on April 8, 2008 by

I was looking through some folders on my laptop to see if I could weed some stuff out, and I found the folder that had the last version of my personal website before I moved it and the Tudor section … Continue reading →

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Help a fellow Tudorphile raise money for cancer research

Posted on April 3, 2008 by

10 years ago when I first started the TudorTalk email list, my very first subscriber was Amanda Grayson. The funny part is with potential subscribers from across the planet, the first one lived just a few miles away from me! … Continue reading →

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