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Walmgate Bar, York
Walmgate Bar When I visited York this summer, I made sure to visit both Micklegate Bar and Walmgate Bar. These two gates paint a vivid picture of the medieval period. While Micklegate was the main...
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James II of Scotland
Wars of the Roses and Foreign Personalities A recent post in a Facebook history group got me thinking. We know so much about the main players of the Wars of the Roses, but what do we know about the...
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Medieval Dispensations
Vatican By Andreas Tille (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsRecently I stumbled across the...
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Elizabeth of York and Henry Tudor
Elizabeth and Henry (stained glass from Cardiff Castle) Credit: Wolfgang Sauber Today marks the anniversary of the wedding of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York in 1486. While this marriage was made...
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Guest Blog: Prince Arthur, the Mortimers and the search for Tudor legitimacy
I am excited to host a guest blog by historian Sean Cunningham today. The following post is an excerpt from his latest book, Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was. Prince Arthur, the Mortimers...
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