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'Dissenting historian' & Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | The House of Beaufort | Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders | Son of Prophecy | Welsh-Kashmiri
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🚨 COVER REVEAL 🚨
'Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor' is an epic history of one family's transformation from Welsh rebels to English kings.
Fourteen years in the making, this is the story of the Tudors, but not how you know it.
Out in July & available for preorder.
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As is sadly the case every year when it floods in Tewkesbury, always fascinated by how the abbey and much of the old town remains clear of floodwater. They weren't dumb, our ancestors.
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Someone needs to do a Google Maps, but for the past. For example, typing in "London to York" but you can select a period e.g. 1450s, and it would give you the likeliest route. That'd be great.
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Henry VIII's face when he sees Anne Boleyn trending on Twitter 484 years after her execution.
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24 hours in Britain. An MP murdered for doing her job. Football fans taunting refugee kids. Racist billboards from UKIP. Wow Britain, Wow.
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If Arthur Tudor hadn't died aged 15, we'd have got this book in January 1523. I bet it would have been AMAZING.
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It's taken just under four years and a LOT of Earth-rocking curveballs throughout the writing process but look what I finally have in my hand 👀. I did it, and that's that.
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At the National Portrait Gallery, where Margaret Beaufort keeps eternal watch over her foe 😶🌫️
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People will remember JPR Williams taking the ball high and going on a run, but this is it. Cleans the French winger right out.
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Started - 10 April 2017.
Released - 15 April 2021.
Project Complete.
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BBC commentator with a bit of "joking" about the difficult pronunciation of Welsh placenames in comparison to Iranian names. Wait until I tell you about Leicester, Southwark, Bicester, Magdelen and the rest, pal.
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People who believe Richard III innocent won't read work by people such as myself.
People who believe Richard III to be guilty won't read work by Ricardian-leaning authors like Matt Lewis or Philippa Langley.
And therein lies the error of so many. Read widely.
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Who else nerds out over tombs of dead people from 500 years ago?
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Hey
@X
, how can I get called the N word and your report says it doesn't breach the violations. How are you man above the actual law?
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🚨 Incredibly excited by new DNA research revealing it's beyond reasonable doubt Henry Tudor was fathered by Richard, Duke of York, and not Edmund Tudor as previously thought.
So Richard III and Henry VII were, in fact, half-brothers! Full paper due to be released next week 😱
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In other news, never forget there's a fish and chip shop in Market Bosworth called The Batter of Bosworth.
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When he died on this day in 1509, in his own opulent palace, Henry VII was the first king of England to peacefully bequeath his crown to his heir in 87 years, and avoided overthrow like the previous four. His descendants still sit on the throne.
Success by any measure, surely?
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On this day in 1457, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, was born in Pembroke Castle. Who could have foreseen this child of mixed Welsh, English and French ancestry would one day claim the English throne in one of the most dramatic rags-to-royal-riches tales ever lived.
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Bruges. A place I loved so much at Christmas five years ago I decided to come back 🎄
"It's a fairytale town, isn't it?"
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My girlfriend enjoys cross-stitching and has knocked up this glorious piece over the last few weeks. Finished in time for Henry & Elizabeth's 538th anniversary! 🪡🧵
Look at their happy little faces!
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55 years since Aberfan. I think about how the miners brought out the dead children, passing the stretchers along one-by-one. One miner momentarily stopped, looked at a child, mentioned to the miner next to him ‘That was my child’ before carrying on regardless to finish the job⚒️
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Drove 2hr 50mins to be allowed 30 seconds in a church to take a picture of David Owen. The bastard son of Owen Tudor and therefore the half-uncle of Henry VII, David was knighted at Bosworth and would be one of his nephew's closest friends and allies.
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The chantry chapel of Arthur, Prince of Wales, in Worcester Cathedral, the Tudor heir who died aged 15 in April 1502, breaking the hearts of his parents Elizabeth of York and Henry VII.
The Tudor king that never was, the second Arthurian golden age that never dawned.
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The prayer book of Katherine Parr, queen of England, discovered in a Faversham chimney in 1881. This book, thought to date from 1547, is reputedly the earliest book in English by a named English female author. It is believed to have been hidden during the reign of Mary I.
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Woken up this morning after an eventful weekend, and still think the Princes in the Tower were likely murdered around July-November 1483, and done so on the orders of Richard III or Duke of Buckingham.
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During the march to Bosworth, Henry Tudor was joined by a man named David, or Dafydd Seisyllt, to give his name in Welsh. Seisyllt was anglicised to Cecil, and I know you know that name under the later Tudors. William Cecil, Lord Burghley, was his grandson.
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I fully believe this document is signed Richard of England and is an authentic legal document from 1493. 100%. BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THE HAND THAT SIGNED RICHARD OF ENGLAND WAS RICHARD OF ENGLAND. WARBECK WASN'T SIGNING IT 'AKA PIERS'.
ALLOW IT, BRUV.
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"reject narrow nationalism" Matt Hancock says, with a huge portrait of the Queen and a Union Flag in his living room. British Nationalists once more telling Welsh and Scottish nationalists (not to mention European internationalists) they are wrong.
And therein lies the issue...
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If the Tudors "killed the Welsh language" though the Act of Union in 1536, how come this was the state of play for Welsh speakers in 1891?
Green = Over 85%
Red = Over 60%
Light Yellow = Over 35%
Dark Yellow = Over 10%
Blue = Under 10%
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@RevRichardColes
@RevDavidColes
I took great comfort from choosing my wife's clothes for her July funeral. Head to toes in Christmas stuff.
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The Booksellers' Staircase in Rouen, built in 1480 to provide access to the library. During his time in Rouen between April-June 1485, Henry Tudor made several offerings at the altar, recorded by the canons as being the "king of England". He would have known this staircase.
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On 14 January 1396, John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, married Lady Katherine Swynford, the mother of his four Beaufort children, in Lincoln Cathedral 💍👰🤵🍾🌹
The marriage was a remarkable decision; rarely did royal princes marry their mistresses...
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If the Princes in the Tower were not murdered, then...
Ricardians🤝Beaufortians
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On 25 August 1485, the body of Richard III was placed into a hastily dug and small grave in the choir of the Greyfriars in Leicester. His body would be rediscovered 527 years later, to the day, by archaeologists on the first day of a dig known as the Looking for Richard project.
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Owen Tudor. Child refugee who leaves his wartorn homeland, falls in love with the young widowed queen, they live in bliss having children together but she dies, he goes to war on behalf of his stepson and at 60 has his head chopped off. Postscript is his grandson becomes King
If you could have a film made about a historical person/era/event and it had an unlimited budget, who or what would you choose?
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If a slender Irishman as Henry VIII, Superman as the Duke of Suffolk, or even a bearded heartthrob as Henry VII of all people is acceptable casting, yet you rage at a black Anne Boleyn in a modern psychological retelling, there's a word for that 🤷🏾♂️.
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"so you see, Margaret Beaufort could not have killed the princes"
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The Booksellers' Staircase in Rouen Cathedral, built in 1480 by Guillaume Pontis. During his time in Rouen between April and June 1485, Henry Tudor made several offerings at the altar, recorded by the canons as being the "king of England". He would have known this staircase.
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As any historian will note, it is pretty weird seeing things you write about 500 years ago played out infront of you in the modern world with modern technology.
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As I slowly work my way through Philippa Langley's Princes in the Tower book, I am hugely impressed by the methodical and chronological laying out of every known source regarding 1483. This section alone is hugely beneficial as a study guide to all students and historians.
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Any Sunday league football pitch with a better view than that in Bamburgh, Northumberland?
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I've grown to really like Jason Kelce in recent months, he's such a character, but what's on about? Granted, Rees-Zammit is a well-brought up Vale of Glamorgan boy, but I'm not sure the Welsh are considered posh 😄
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I would support testing on the bones in the urn purporting to be the Princes in the Tower just so we never have to hear about them again. I, for one, suspect they are not the remains of the princes, but for different reasons than Philippa Langley
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The George in Southwark, a timber framed pub dating from 1676 and the only surviving galleried Inn left in London, overlooked by a modern imposter. My favourite pub in London.
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Me trying to maintain composure when listening to a theory Margaret Beaufort killed the Princes in the Tower.
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This year will be particularly tough for all the young widows of
@WidowedAndYoung
charity who have to navigate bereavement at such a young age coupled with enforced lockdown loneliness. That's why the charity plays such an integral role
@michaelsheen
@BBCBreakfast
"That spirit that was there in early lockdown... we need to try and get back into that again"
Actor
@michaelsheen
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#BBCBreakfast
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When you think what Notre-Dame has survived in its 850-year history, it is madness today might be the day it comes tumbling down. Oh I hope those beautiful Rose Windows survive just like York's did in the 1984 fire 😢
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Remember - TV is designed to entertain the general masses. The Princes in the Tower documentary was riveting, 10/10 TV that was produced by an incredible crew. Now, for further (polite!) scrutiny of the claims, we turn to the books.
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So, 2 years and 7 months since I started writing it, I have today submitted 'Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders; Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick' to my publishers to be crafted into a book to be released in the summer of 2020 😱. This will be the cover. I hope you approve🤩🥳
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The quiet, unassuming field that 537 years ago on this day, was the bloody scene of ruthless slaughter as the armies of Richard III and Henry Tudor clashed. This is where one king fell, and another was made. Redemore. Sandeford. Dadlington Field. BOSWORTH ⚔️
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It is ok to love Welsh football and Welsh rugby, mind 👍🏾. Great teams, great country.
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Did you know the first-known instance of the phrase 'Merry Christmas' stems from a letter written from prison by Bishop John Fisher in 1534, when he wrote to Thomas Cromwell, perhaps wryly, “And thus our Lord send yow a mery Christenmas".
Fisher was beheaded six months later.
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Under the simple black marble slab in the quire of St George's Chapel is the final resting place of King Henry VIII. It was intended to be the king's temporary resting place, but with the crown short of funds, his plans for a great monument were never realised
#queensfuneral
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Thank God we no longer have to deal with murderous Easter bunnies like our unfortunate ancestors 🐰🗡️
Happy Easter everyone
Pasg Hapus pawb.
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The recently repainted Christ Church Gate in Canterbury. Glorious.
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Perkin Warbeck was buried in an unmarked grave in Austin Friars, London. The medieval remnants of this friary were destroyed in World War II during the Blitz. Even if we knew where Warbeck's remains were interred, there's little hope now of locating.
I like this picture I took.
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So, were Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck the Princes in the Tower, or were they exactly who we remember they were, a joiner's son from Oxford and boatman's grandson from Tournai? Perhaps we will never know, but their story is told in 'Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders'.
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The tomb of Henry VIII's illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset. The Tudor king who never was?
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is the most absurd film of all time. Casting, setting, plot, just absurd. It's also fan-fucking-tastic.
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OTD 1457, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, was born in Pembroke Castle. Who could have foreseen this child of mixed Welsh, English and French ancestry would one day claim the English throne in one of the most dramatic tales ever lived (no, don't say Margaret Beaufort)
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@thehistoryguy
The best geographical confusion must be the Dutch/Belgium town of Barle-Nassau. I mean, walking the dog you can cross the border 15 times in 10 minutes.
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The way the rumours and conspiracies are running wild about
#KateMiddleton
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The study of Richard III, and the 'revisionist' angle of his reign, definitely deserves a foot at the mainstream table. Richard III was not the Shakespearean monster many believe him to be, and More is a hugely flawed account given way too much credence by itself.
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The most random of gifts from my sister - a full size Owain Glyn Dwr shield 😂. Cymru Rydd 🫡
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To those who dream of writing a book, if you're focused, deeply inspired, and most of all passionate, then you can do it too.
Every author was once unpublished, unknown, and unsure - it's just a matter of hard work, dedication, and patience to make it happen ✒️📚.
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On 29 March 1461, the Battle of Towton is fought in the snow between the Houses of York and Lancaster, described by an ambassador as 'great and cruel' as happens 'when men fight for kingdom and life'. According to one bishop, there were dead bodies for six miles long. A dark day.
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Richard III was not a saint and Henry VII was not a monster. Richard III was not a monster and Henry VII was not a saint.
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A mid-15th century medieval tile I spotted in Gloucester Cathedral featuring a design around a heart ❤️.
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I often struggle with my cats walking across my keyboard whenever the opportunity presents itself, inserting a flurry of random letters in the middle of my carefully crafted text.
Nice to see our ancestors had similar problems, as this manuscript from 1445 shows...
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'The Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor' is an epic sweep through 300 years of one family's story, and their unlikely emergence from the Welsh hills to become kings of England. This is the story of the Tudors, but not as you know it.
Out next year:
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The 'Chequers Ring' is proper cool, right? Set with pearls and rubies, with diamonds forming the letter E, the ring was worn by Elizabeth I. It is thought one of the portraits inside depicts her mother Anne Boleyn, beheaded when the Tudor queen was less than three years old.
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I'm currently in Westminster Abbey, so had to pop by to this commemorative plaque remembering Anne Neville, Queen of England. She died on this day in 1485, the same day it was reported there was an eclipse, and buried in an unmarked grave near the High Altar.
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PERKIN WARBECK ON THE CONTINENT PRETENDING TO BE PRINCE RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK, WOULD NOT BE KNOWN AS ANYTHING ELSE THAN RICHARD OF ENGLAND. COME ON, NOW.
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Seven years ago I made my TV debut in 'British History's Biggest Fibs' on the BBC. One day I had no work so popped to a local castle for a wander, next thing I know, I'm on the box with
@Lucy_Worsley
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The Booksellers' Staircase in Rouen, built in 1480 by Guillaume Pontis to provide access to the library. During his time in Rouen between April and June 1485, Henry Tudor made several offerings at the altar, recorded by the canons as being the "king of England".
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Today is Kate's would-be 40th Birthday 🎉
Happy birthday, doofus. 🎁🎈🎂🎉
💞 "No-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...the span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence" 💞
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Your book may be cool, but it'll never be read-by-a-soldier-leaning-against-a-tank cool 🪖
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To understand your own argument, you must always read widely, and especially scrutinise those accounts that hold opposing views.
About to delve into Philippa Langley's intriguing 'The Princes in the Tower', the latest addition to this lot looking at Simnel and Warbeck!
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The Council of the Royal Historical Society (
@RoyalHistSoc
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Happy 'would-be' 6th wedding anniversary Katherine Amin 💞👱🏻♀️💞
Christmassy with a sprinkling of medieval, Wales, and feminism. If you're going to do it, do it right 💒💍💐🎄🍾
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On this day in 1503, Elizabeth of York, regarded as "one of the most gracious and best beloved princesses in the world", died in the Tower of London. It was her 37th birthday.
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On 3 February 1399, the mighty John of Gaunt died. He left his "most dear wife" Katherine Swynford his two best brooches, a bed of black velvet, and his "buckles, rings, diamonds, rubies, and other things, that will be found in a little box, of which I carry the key myself".
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And so it began. Others believed in me, then I believed in me, and now in two weeks I'll be speaking in front of more than 300 people without breaking a bead of sweat having a great time.
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Did you know the 'Beaufort Book of Hours', owned by Margaret Beaufort and in which important family events were recorded (like 'this day King Harry the VII wedded the queen Elizabeth') is fully digitised by
@britishlibrary
and can be viewed by YOU below?
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The ongoing debate about Mary Queen of Scots's accent when speaking English - French or Scottish, makes me wonder about Henry VII.
Lived in Wales from birth until 14, Brittany from 14 to 26 and France 26-28, before landing in England where he remained until death. His accent?
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