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Laoise Murray as the Lady Elizabeth and Sarah Bolger as the Lady Mary in The Tudors

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I spent my junior year of college at Lancaster University in Britain, which was fabulous for someone going into medieval English history. One of my courses covered Elizabethan England.  (Yes, I understand that’s not medieval.) The professor was particularly notable not just because he was American teaching English history inContinue Reading

Queen Elizabeth I of ENgland Feeds the Dutch Cow, 16th century painting

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We have no idea who painted this beyond it was someone in the Netherlands around 1586. Queen Elizabeth I of England was a longtime supporter of the Dutch.  They were connected religiously, with both countries being Protestant, and also economically: the Dutch had the most lucrative trading markets in northernContinue Reading