This programme is an absolute delight. I’ve listened to it twice now and I will be buying the book as soon as I have time to read something that isn’t an NEA or an exam answer. #historyteacher www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
Borman says that Anne probably didn’t love Henry (who would have, let’s be honest?)
I always forget how cold it gets in this 900 year old building.
*And* I haven’t purchased the book. Yet. I have followed my tradition of forgetting to bring a book with me to get signed - that’s how I ended up with 3 copies of Voices of Morebath, none of them signed) #historyteacher
Out on a school night! (I am at a talk by Tracy Borman about her new fiction book. It still counts - the cat is not here and I am not at my laptop. I’m out.) #historyteacher
It needs to have Catholic and Protestant features in it
It had a blue hardback cover and it was *so old.* I think it came out in 1945.
This is where Twitter would be useful (because I posted about it on Twitter waaaaaaaay back) #historyteacher
I used to do a great activity at my old school where Y12/13 would build a shoebox church and show the physical changes that happened to churches because of the Reformation. It used a very old book from the 1940s about church architecture. I can’t remember the name of the book. #historyteacher
All this is to say that if you’re interested in Tudor history, you should buy this magazine because it’s always a really good read. Also, this is a great example of how to centre women in the historical story, OCR (I mean, everyone 👀) #historyteacher
Her kids followed in her footsteps: daughter Anne became a nun in Louvain; her son, Henry, studied at the English Colleges in Rheims and Rome. One stepson was imprisoned for recusancy and dying in Hull prison in 1604; the other became a seminary priest in 1608. #historyteacher
She was killed in one of the busiest thoroughfares of the city as a stark warning to other recusants. Her body was recovered 6 weeks later by her confessor and buried with Catholic rituals; he later published the account of her life. Her husband remarried. #historyteacher
Margaret is believed to have been pregnant at the time of her peine forte et dure sentence. Relatives and advisors told her to reveal this to the authorities; she refused. She wanted to protect her family from having to testify against her. Also protecting other Catholics. #historyteacher
She was said to often walk to the site of the gallows barefoot, as if it were a place of pilgrimage, and kneel praying in the blood. She knew some of the priests personally and two of them had visited her house. #historyteacher
She fasted 4 days a week; her husband did not approve (he was a butcher) and she created spaces in her house for priests to hide and she used to sneak out of the house to pray for priests executed during the 1580s. #historyteacher
Margaret taught herself to read English while she was in prison, including a New Testament. When she was released, she became even more passionate about her faith. #historyteacher
‘Only those Catholics considered the most dangerous and influential were imprisoned in the Castle complex, with a dedicated wing in the shadow of Clifford’s Tower.’ Clitherow shared a cell with several women (Janet Geldad was separate as she succeeded in converting her husband) #historyteacher
Fascinating article in @tudorplaces.bsky.social this issue about Margaret Clitherow and other women convicted of recusancy: Clitherow was imprisoned Oct 1580-April 1581 & spring 1583-winter 1584. Her husband, a Protestant, was fined several times for her refusal to attend church #historyteacher
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Well, this doesn’t remind me of anything at all #historyteacher
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An extract from this book has infuriated my Year 13s (it’s not the book - it’s the person it mentions. He winds them up so much, and they thought they were rid of him in 1497, yet here he is mentioned again in 1556!) #historyteacher
‘Oh God, not Warbeck *again*’
This is the Dudley Conspiracy.
You have the right one. He’s generally a terrible human being.
Suffolk deciding to weigh in with Wyatt’s Rebellion is unforgivable, imo. He must have known it would mean his daughter would die. #historyteacher Tomorrow’s revision session is only sources about Henry Grey’s poor judgement.
I made a judgement today about Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk to Y13 ‘one of the worst dads in the whole A Level’ (which I stand by) and it got me thinking: I do this game a lot. The worst husband is Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, btw. #historyteacher #EarlyTudoes
I’m presenting this year!
It’s about Isabella of Castile, Katharine of Aragon, Anne of Brittany, Anne of Cleves, Margaret of Burgundy, Queen Claude of France, Margaret Tudor - they were vital for diplomacy, despite what #ALevel specs suggest! More women in this post than any spec. #historyteacher
It’s been my ambition since I was 7.
This is one of my students’ favourite sources #earlytudors #historyteacher 
The city alderman showed up to reason with them, and Elizabeth Glandfield hit him and ‘sent him packing.’ The women blockaded themselves in the priory, though were eventually apprehended and sent to prison.
Exeter: following the Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries, a group of women armed themselves with pikes, shovels and spikes, smashed the door of the priory open, and started throwing stones at the man who was dismantling it. They chased him into the tower and he jumped out of a window
This one now. I am determined to get through the TBR! #historyteacher Stoyle’s explanation of the rising on Not Just the Tudors was gripping, so I am looking forward to finally getting into this book.
What a great read. I really enjoy Tallis’ style; I like the way she integrates sources seamlessly into the story (a bit like Anna Whitelock’s biography of Mary I, also a great read) #historyteacher 100% will use in classroom (esp the last chapter about interpretations of LJG)