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  • #OTD in Tudor history – 5 May

    3 days ago Author: Claire Ridgway
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    A portrait of Sir Henry Sidney, sketch of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder and portrait of Anne Boleyn

    On this day in Tudor history, 5th May, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Richard Page were arrested in the fall of Anne Boleyn; Agnes Tilney, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, was pardoned and released following the fall of her step-granddaughter, Catherine Howard; a religious radical was executed in Calais; and Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir Henry Sidney died…

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  • #OTD in Tudor History – 17 January

    3 months ago Author: Claire Ridgway
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    A portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder by Holbein, and a sketch of Agnes Bowker's cat

    On this day in Tudor history, 17th January, poet Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder was thrown into the Tower of London, a Leicestershire woman was alleged to have given birth to a cat, and a famous clockmaker and sundial maker died…

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