Alison Weir – Cannonball Read 17

“When love buds between great princes”

Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir

December 20, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

England’s Age of Chivalry was a surprisingly turbulent period marked by coups, civil unrest, and outright war on multiple fronts. We meet five queens in this book, including one of the most reviled and one of the most beloved in all of English history. This is the third book in Alison Weir’s England’s Medieval Queens, in which she profiles the queens of medieval England from the Conquest to (I believe) the end of the War of the Roses. In this book, we meet the queens […]

This is not the Anne Boleyn you are looking for

Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession by Alison Weir

July 11, 2020 by PulpoPerdida Leave a Comment

One of my great guilty pleasures these days is books and media related to Tudor history. It feels like a very specific combination of nerdy and basic to admit that you are super into Anne Boleyn and friends (too obvious for your average history buff, too esoteric for everyone else). But oh boy am I into it. The story of Henry the Eighth and his many wives has got more sex, death and twists than a soap opera and the best thing is that it […]

The reign of Henry VIII is one of the most fascinating in English history.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

July 8, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I felt like I already knew a lot of this history and it took me a second to figure out why. Well, it’s all pretty readily available, but it just simply occurred to me that between Wolf Hall, The Tudors, A Man for All Seasons, and Beckett, so much of this material is well-trod for me. That has no bearing on how good and how enjoyable I found this history to be. To be clear, this is a writer who heavily researched this topic, but focuses on the availability of […]

Divorced, beheaded and died; divorced, beheaded, survived

March 9, 2017 by TheShitWizard 7 Comments

There would appear to have been two big dangers to the health of women in the 16th century. One of them was childbirth – if you didn’t die during, it was highly likely that you would do so in the immediate aftermath, mostly thanks to puerperal fever (a uterine infection caused by, shudder, tearing and a total ignorance of hygiene on the part of Tudor midwives – and the other was marrying Henry VIII. This is the story of the six unlucky ladies to have […]

The truth behind the Sexy Tudors

July 3, 2016 by Malin Leave a Comment

Tudor history has pretty much always been my favourite era of any historical period ever. There’s just so much drama and intrigue and the personalities were so immense, be it Henry VIII or his two daughters, Mary I and Elizabeth I. Back in November, there was a big audiobook sale over at Audible, and I picked up a huge amount of books, this one included. It took me nearly three and a half months of on and off listening to get through this nearly 23 […]

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