Look what was happening 500 years ago RIGHT NOW ๐ฒ
At 6pm on 7 June 1520 Henry VIII of England met Franรงois I of France near Calais for an astonishingly grand 18-day festival designed to improve relations between their 2 rival kingdoms ๐ (1/4)
Image credit: @RCT
126 years ago today the most stylish painter in history was born.
She was called Tamara de Lempicka and everything about her life and art embodied the spirit of the 1920s.
If you like Art Deco, you'll love Tamara de Lempicka...
This time two years ago I was discovering how incredible Hildegard of Bingen is at her original home of Disibodenberg. So much has happened since then and the book she ended up starring in - Femina - went on to such wonderful things!!
Recently, Ridley Scott, when asked about historical inaccuracies in his films said:
"How do you know, where you there? Napoleon had 400 books written about him. Maybe the first was the most accurate... there is a lot of speculation."
A ๐งตon how historians know what we know. 1/25
The points I made here in a thread about uniform research could easily be applied to historical research in a lot of ways. https://t.co/mmJj2yWOBy 19/25
Henry VIIIโs tiltyard at Greenwich lies under the lawn in front of the 17thC Queenโs House, as confirmed by excavations by TVโs Time Team. The place of Henryโs last meeting with Anne Boleyn, as they watched the May Day jousts in 1536. The following day she was arrested #tudor
Usually when we're talking about the women who influenced Anne Boleyn in France, 3 names come up: Queen Claude, Louise of Savoy & Marguerite of Navarre, but there was one more woman.
Anne de Beaujeu.
More about her & how she influenced Anne in my new book!
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Described as the 'best dressed sovereign in the world', Henry VIII spent ยฃ2 million a year (in today's money) on clothes. Today @sixteenthCgirl is joined by Maria Hayward to get to grips with the sumptuous garments, the fabrics and exaggerated codpieces: https://t.co/YobjebsIMd