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Did tuberculosis kill henry vii? Maybe not. Read “Royal Pains” to learn if it did.

Henry VII, artist unknown,
National Portrait Gallery, c.1505

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Buff King hal after ingesting 5,000 calories per day

Henry VIII, workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger, privately owned, 1542

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what took the life of this young, precocious ruler?
Read“Royal Pains”to find out.

Edward VI, attributed to William Scrots,
The Hermitage, c.1546

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was mary looking stern because of health issues?

Mary I, Antonio Moro,
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1554

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Elizabeth showing her age

Elizabeth I, artist unknown,
National Portrait Gallery, c.1580

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Can the Mary Rose

provide sociological information? read “Shipwreck Reveals Surprising Racial Diversity of Henry VIII’s England.”

The remains of the Mary Rose in 2019. By Geni - photo by user:geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ w/index.php?curid=80305862

Under the leadership of David Cicotello, students at Truman State University bring Shakespeare’s sonnets to life in the early 1990s.  How did they do this?  To find out, read “Teaching and Performing Shakespeare’s Sonnets.”

Do you want to learn about a group of bishops who did not move diagonally on a chessboard?  If so, read the series on Understanding Bloody Mary’s
Bloody Bishops.

Part I 

Part II

Part III 

Part IV

Additional installments
will be forthcoming.

Should you buy a copy of The Tudors on Film and Television?  Click here to reaD
Lara Marsh’s review.

Paul Scofield as Thomas More in
A Man for All Seasons (1966)