On this day in history events for 9-15 February.
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This week in history 9 – 15 February
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This week in history 2 – 8 February
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This week in history 26 January – 1st February
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Cor Rotto: A Novel of Catherine Carey Book Tour Day 7 – Life in Exile
An article by Adrienne Dillard on what life was like for Marian exiles like Catherine Carey and her husband Francis Knollys who fled to the Continent.
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This week in history 12 – 18 January
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Lucy Worsley Talks
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Tudor TV Programmes – January 2015
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This week in history 5 – 11 January
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This week in history 29 December – 4 January
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This week in history 22 – 28 December
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This week in history 15 – 21 December
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This week in history 8 – 14 December
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This week in history 1 – 7 December
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This week in history 17 – 23 November
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5th November 1605 – The Gunpowder Plot
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This Week in History 3 – 9 November
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This Week in History 27 October – 2 November
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This Week in History 20 – 26 October
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This Week in History 13 – 19 October
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This Week in History 6 – 12 October
This week in history events for 6th to 12th October.
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This Week in History 29 September – 5 October
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October 2014 Magazine
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Lady Jane Grey Books
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Mary I Primary Sources
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Lady Jane Grey Primary Sources
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Elizabeth I Primary Sources
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A little Christmas PIVA music
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The Battle of Bosworth Field and the beginning of the Tudor Dynasty
On this day in history, 22nd August 1485, the last Plantagenet king, Richard III, was killed when his Yorkist forces met those of Lancastrian Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
Henry claimed the throne as Henry VII and went on to marry Richard’s niece, Elizabeth of York, daughter of King Edward IV, thus uniting the royal houses of York and Lancaster. It was the start of a new dynasty of the throne of England: the Tudors.
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The princess who lived in the shadow of kings – Katherine of York
On this day in history, 14th August 1479, Katherine of York was born.
She was the daughter of King Edward IV and Queen Elizabeth Woodville, the sister of Queen Elizabeth of York and the Princes in the Tower, and the aunt of Henry VIII. She was at the very heart of Plantagenet and Tudor dynasties — living through regime change, rebellion, and royal funerals, yet she chose to live out her final days on her estates in Devon.
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The Tudor Lord with 9 Lives – John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton
On this day in history, 22nd July 1437 (or 1438), John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, was born at Bolton Castle in Yorkshire. He was a man who’d back the losing side multiple times, but with his head intact.
He fought at Towton with Edward IV, rebelled against him, supported Richard III, then Henry VII, then backed a royal pretender… yet he survived! He reall was like a cat with nine lives.
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