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Talk 5: Textiles and text: A collaborative approach to conserving textile-covered manuscripts |
Conservators Jane Eagan and Maria Hayward describe their work treating seven manuscripts re-covered in velvet for Henry VIII, part of a small corpus of royal books still in their textile bindings in the Queens College Library |
Jane Eagan, Maria Hayworth, Alice Evans |
05 Apr 2022 |
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Henry VIII Renaissance Medal |
On Henry VIII and the Founding of the Church of England Minted at London in 1545, this medal shows a bust of Henry VIII, with inscriptions in Hebrew and Greek on the reverse. |
Diarmaid MacCulloch |
23 Jan 2017 |
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Creative Commons |
Kings and peoples |
This lecture argues that engagement in war vitally shaped the relationship of Henry VIII's subjects with the king and with his immediate successors. |
Steven Gunn |
12 Oct 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Killing and dying |
This lecture asks what weapons people owned in Henry VIII's England and whether they knew how to use them, some of its evidence drawn from coroners' inquests into accidents with bows, guns and swords. |
Steven Gunn |
12 Oct 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Trade and tillage |
This lecture examines war and the economy in Henry VIII's England: heavy taxation and disrupted trade threatened recession. |
Steven Gunn |
12 Oct 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Noblemen and gentlemen |
This lecture explores how military service related to the social power and self-image of lords and gentlemen in Henry VIII's England. |
Steven Gunn |
12 Oct 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Towns and villages |
This lecture uses the records of hundreds of parishes and boroughs to see how communities coped with the pressures of war in Henry VIII's England. |
Steven Gunn |
12 Oct 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Wars and Rumours of Wars |
This lecture introduces the series and asks how many people took part in war in Henry VIII's England and how far those not directly involved were aware of what was happening. |
Steven Gunn |
12 Oct 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight. |
ePub version of text The Famous History of the Life of King HENRY the Eight. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
William Shakespeare |
26 Oct 2010 |
