Tudor things from the Telegraph
1. Thomas Cromwell letter to Henry VIII before Anne of Cleves marriage discovered
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9322677/Thomas-Cromwell-letter-to-Henry-VIII-before-Anne-of-Cleves-marriage-discovered.html
It's amazing that things like this are still out there, waiting for a seller's whim to come to light.
2. Summer was most dangerous time for Tudors, research shows
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9185367/Summer-was-most-dangerous-time-for-Tudors-research-shows.html
The headline on that one seems slightly misleading (it's about ordinary sixteenth-century people, not the Tudor monarchs), but interesting all the same for the sheer variety of fatal agricultural accidents it mentions (apparently June was Danger Month). This one strikes me as the most existentially terrifying: "Many were killed while chopping wood or cutting down ash, oak and poplar, with one unfortunate soul even falling asleep beside a hayrick which collapsed and suffocated him" (my emphasis).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9322677/Thomas-Cromwell-letter-to-Henry-VIII-before-Anne-of-Cleves-marriage-discovered.html
It's amazing that things like this are still out there, waiting for a seller's whim to come to light.
2. Summer was most dangerous time for Tudors, research shows
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9185367/Summer-was-most-dangerous-time-for-Tudors-research-shows.html
The headline on that one seems slightly misleading (it's about ordinary sixteenth-century people, not the Tudor monarchs), but interesting all the same for the sheer variety of fatal agricultural accidents it mentions (apparently June was Danger Month). This one strikes me as the most existentially terrifying: "Many were killed while chopping wood or cutting down ash, oak and poplar, with one unfortunate soul even falling asleep beside a hayrick which collapsed and suffocated him" (my emphasis).