Alison Weir, The Princes In The Tower (The Folio Society, London: 1992)
w/c 17 July 2017
Richard of Gloucester was typical of the magnates of the period: acquisitive, hungry for wealth, land and power, brave in battle, tough, ruthless, energetic, and keenly interested in warfare, heraldry, and the manly pursuits such as hunting and hawking.
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‘Elizabethan London was livelier, noisier, smellier, probably more dangerous and certainly more colourful than the city we know today.’
Gamino Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, (The Folio Society, London: 2006)
Just another Saturday night at The Boar’s Head, Eastcheap?
I needed cheering after going back to school today at the end of the Easter Holidays. And, look what I collected from the Post Office on the way home …
The bookshelf has had another update … this is the sort of thing that floats my boat on evenings when I don’t have urgent schoolwork to do; the sort of thing that makes pupils look aghast when they ask what I do with my life instead of watching TV!
The bookshelf has had an update …
As I’ve said elsewhere, I have a soft spot for the BBC Shakespeare Collection.
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Amongst the cosmetic changes I’ve made over the past few days, you might have noticed the arrival of a new page: The Boar’s Head Bookshelf.
What’s that all about?
… and so beguile thy sorrow (Titus Andronicus)
An era ended on Thursday this week …
‘… like Olivier, Branagh ducked what is the most contentious element in the play for British audiences, namely Henry’s apparently criminal massacre of his helpless French prisoners …’
John Sutherland
I bought this book, which arrived today, on the strength of the fun I had with another of John Sutherland’s: ‘Is Heathcliffe a Murderer? Puzzles in 19th-Century Fiction.’
the man might take as long as a quarter of an hour to expire
Currently reading the wonderfully cheery Hangmen of England, by Brian Bailey (WH Allen, 1989). Whilst reflecting on what fun dinner-time conversation with ‘Uncle Bill’ must have been as he researched the book, I chanced upon this little gem about Tudor executions:
The Boar's Head, Eastcheap 