Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (33)

Content

Tudor Monastery Farm

8.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

TV Show

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years...

A Tudor Feast at Christmas

8.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

TV Show

A group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast as it would have been over 400 years...

The Lives of Tudor Women

Elizabeth Norton

8.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

Book

The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be...

ClareR (5726 KP) rated The Catherine Howard Conspiracy (The Marquess House Trilogy #1) in Books

Apr 13, 2019

This is set in two timelines: modern day and the Tudor Court. Dr Perdita Rivers and her twin sister, Piper, have been left an enormous bequest by their maternal grandmother. Perdita’s grandmother was a renowned Tudor historian, and had cut off all ties with her granddaughters after the death of their mother. So this is a bit of a shock!
The other timeline follows Catherine Howard in the lead up to her marriage to Henry VIII, and those fateful months that followed it.
I really do like historical novels, and the Tudor period has always particularly fascinated me. I loved all of the historical detail (and I know a lot of it is just conjecture, but it’s fun to imagine!), and Perdie’s research was very interesting too. I’d love a library like hers!
I’m very much looking forward to reading the second instalment as the ending was most intriguing!!

Kudos

Period House Fixtures and Fittings 1300-1900

Linda Hall

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

England has a wealth of surviving houses from past centuries, be they country mansions or rustic...

Hayley Hornibrook (48 KP) rated Innocent Traitor in Books

Jul 6, 2018

Innocent Traitor

Alison Weir | 2007 | History & Politics

7.0

(3 Ratings)

Book Rating

Attention to detail (0 more)

Alison is my favourite historical author - her characters are as close to their true stories as fiction can possibly allow them to be. She can get inside the time period and their heads to take the reader on an emotional and exciting journey. It is the plight of Tudor women she does this with best; and the two books about Anne Boleyn and Lady Jane Grey are my favourites. I have loved devouring her books - easy reads and original twists.

Kudos

Deborah (162 KP) rated Forensic Shakespeare in Books

Dec 21, 2018

Forensic doesn't mean this is the Shakespeare equivalent of Silent Witness - this is a book looking at a group of Shakespeare's plays (and one poem), of which several are often considered 'problem' plays and the use of rhetoric within them. Skinner argues that this is deliberate and relates to a re-emerging interest in the Roman Rhetoricians in the Tudor period. The book is based on a series of lectures given by Skinner, so although as a casual reader I found it interesting, it was also hard work at times, particularly the opening chapters.