HeyJaredTudor Blogger: The History Notes
'Tudor Blogger: The History Notes' is the history substack from historian, author, and blogger Helene Harrison.
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September 2026 Newsletter (opens the original)
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So, my fourth book was finally published, only 5 days late, highlight of my September! I’ve had so many lovely comments, reviews, and good wishes, so thank you to everyone who has commented, reviewed, reached out.I have had another positive month in terms of blogging, and I am making progress towards my deadline for my fifth book as well, though I am still a little worried. Hopefully I’ll get there! I’ve had some health problems recently, which has slowed me down, though hopefully they’re largel
Who is the Unknown Woman in the pair of Horenbout Miniatures? (opens the original)
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I am going to preface this post, as there has been a lot on social media lately that I’ve seen around these miniatures. I know that Owen Emmerson and Natalie Grueninger have recorded a podcast episode, and that Sylvia Barbara Soberton has written a couple of Substack posts. I am making it clear now that I haven’t listened to the episode or read the recent posts and I made this decision deliberately while writing this post. Any ideas or opinions expressed are my own, unless otherwise referenced o
Copied Hands in the ‘Hever Rose’ Portrait of Anne Boleyn? (opens the original)
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This week I am doing an online course with Dr Owen Emmerson and Kate McCaffrey called ‘Inventing Anne Boleyn’. Owen mentioned that he had seen a post online demonstrating that Anne Boleyn’s hands in the Hever Rose portrait (which we now know were a later addition to the original underdrawing) were in fact identical to the hands in a portrait of Henry VII and I immediately went down a bit of a rabbit hole!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y
Media Review – ‘The Tudors’ Series 2 [2008] (opens the original)
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First broadcast: 2008 (series 1 in 2007).Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII, Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn, James Frain as Thomas Cromwell, Maria Doyle Kennedy as Katherine of Aragon, Henry Cavill as Charles Brandon, Jeremy Northam as Thomas More, Nick Dunning as Thomas Boleyn, and Pádraic Delaney as George Boleyn.You can see my previous review of ‘The Tudors’ series 1 here.Series 2 of The Tudors opens in 1532, skipping ahead from the
Guest Post Q&A with Sharon Bennett Connolly (opens the original)
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Today, I’m welcoming back the lovely Sharon Bennett Connolly to my blog and Substack. Her last post was on Princesses of the Early Middle Ages: Royal Daughters of the Conquest and this time she is here to talk about the sequel Princesses of the Later Middle Ages: Royal Daughters of the Plantagenets!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/im
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