oh for the television of other lands
Mildly annoyed that there's now a BBC series based on Ian Mortimer's book The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018400g
Granted, the book is on my "to be purchased" list when it finally comes out in the US next month, but what can I say? I love history programs. And I know they always say the book is better, but as someone who is not at all good at picturing what things look like when I read about them, I find it very helpful to see sites and costumes and suchlike. Also, some of the things on TV don't always make it into the book - or at least this was the case with Lucy Worsley's series about the history of the home (which I saw courtesy of some kind soul on YouTube): because she'd spent a lot of time at the Weald and Downland Museum, there were "living history" details that just weren't in the book If Walls Could Talk.
ETA: huh. Apparently this is part of a whole "Tudor Court Season" on the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015vkbl/features/programmes
(Incidentally, has anyone read Thomas Penn's book on Henry VII? I keep seeing it in bookstores and wondering about it.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018400g
Granted, the book is on my "to be purchased" list when it finally comes out in the US next month, but what can I say? I love history programs. And I know they always say the book is better, but as someone who is not at all good at picturing what things look like when I read about them, I find it very helpful to see sites and costumes and suchlike. Also, some of the things on TV don't always make it into the book - or at least this was the case with Lucy Worsley's series about the history of the home (which I saw courtesy of some kind soul on YouTube): because she'd spent a lot of time at the Weald and Downland Museum, there were "living history" details that just weren't in the book If Walls Could Talk.
ETA: huh. Apparently this is part of a whole "Tudor Court Season" on the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015vkbl/features/programmes
(Incidentally, has anyone read Thomas Penn's book on Henry VII? I keep seeing it in bookstores and wondering about it.)