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On This Day: “Heart and stomach…”
August 19th, 1588: On this day Queen Elizabeth I of England delivered her famous speech to her assembled land forces at Tilbury, Essex.
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Jul 29
On This Day: The Spanish Armada is sighted
July 29th, 1588: On this day in 1588, the fearsome Spanish Armada is sighted off England’s southern coast.
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Feb 12
On This Day: The Forgotten Queen
February 12th, 1554: England's forgotten queen, Lady Jane Grey, is executed for treason. In most popular histories, and as taught in...
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Jun 29, 2023
On This Day: The Globe on fire
June 29th, 1613: The Globe Theatre burns to the ground. The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare’s ‘All is True’ took place...
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May 22, 2023
On This Day: Began the ‘Cousin’s War’
May 22nd, 1455: The Wars of the Roses began. The Wars of the Roses began not on a battlefield but with a bloody clash fought on foot...
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Feb 4, 2023
On This Day: Burnt for his Beliefs
February 4th, 1555: John Rogers becomes the first Protestant martyr to be burnt at the stake in Queen Mary I’s persecutions. Formerly an...
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Nov 7, 2022
About History: the Scold’s Bridle
The ‘Scold’s Bridle’, sometimes known as ‘The Gossip’s Bridle’, was a punishment used officially and unofficially in England to...
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Feb 8, 2022
On This Day: Mary, Queen of Scots beheaded
February 8th, 1587: After 19 years of imprisonment, Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle. Why? Fotheringhay Castle was...
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Jan 7, 2022
On This Day: Catherine of Aragon dies
January 7th, 1536: Catherine of Aragon, first of Henry VIII’s six wives, dies. It is said that Henry dressed all in yellow, with a white...
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Dec 17, 2021
On This Day: King excommunicated
December 17th, 1538: Henry VIII is excommunicated by Pope Paul III. Henry brought religious upheaval to England. When he became king,...
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Dec 16, 2021
On This Day: Catherine of Aragon born
December 16th, 1485: Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII, was born in Alcala de Henares, Spain. Like all kings at the time...
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Dec 15, 2021
Paranormal thinking?
Somehow we got talking about ghosts a couple of days ago. We were both reminded of working at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire and how it...
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Dec 1, 2021
On This Day: Tudor punishment
December 1st, 1581: Having been convicted of high treason, English Jesuit priest Edmund Campion was drawn through the streets of London,...
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Sep 15, 2021
Edible Tudor England at Berkhamsted Castle
The motte-and-bailey castle in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, was built to control a key route between London and the Midlands as part of...
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Aug 22, 2020
Bosworth Medieval Festival: The Recipes
Like us you were probably as disappointed as we were when Bosworth Medieval Festival had to be cancelled because of the coronavirus...
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Jun 20, 2020
Bosworth: Food Fit For A King
Tastes Of History was delighted to be part of the Bosworth Medieval Festival in 2019 at the brilliant Bosworth Battlefield Heritage...
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Jun 19, 2020
Collop Monday
In an earlier post (Daily Meals in Tudor England) mention was made of 'Collop Monday', the day before Shrove Tuesday, in connection with...
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Jun 18, 2020
An Elizabethan Pageant
In 1563, Elizabeth I (r.1558–1603) granted Kenilworth to her childhood friend and favourite, Robert Dudley, the soon to be Earl of...
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Jun 18, 2020
Daily Bread: Meals in Tudor England
Most people are familiar with the idea of eating breakfast, lunch and dinner (or breakfast, dinner and tea, if you prefer [1]). In Tudor...
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Jun 18, 2020
Tudor Etiquette at Table
Tastes of History ran a workshop for the volunteers at Plas Mawr, an Elizabethan townhouse in Conwy, North Wales to teach something of...
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