Henry the 8th

Henry VIII meme. Laughing with Erica about this one.

Today's post is just another of many random things I don't know. The hair color we call red is not truly red; most shades we call red are actually orange, of one kind or another. But ginger? Where does that come from? Ginger roots are a light brown, like so: And ginger flowers could be any of a number of colors: The British have an ugly and well-documented prejudice against red-haired people, which I assume dates back to the days of the Viking raids. The Celts were small and dark, and…

On this day in 1541, King Henry VIII entered the city of York through Walmgate Bar, and was met by the city's officials at Fulford Cross. The mayor and the

A place for history memes.

Henry the 8th.

Andrew Graham-Dixon on how full-length portraits have been used in history to boost the status of nobles, kings and statesmen

This is absolutely nuts.

Anne hunting. The art of courtly love and chivalric romance so popular during the early medieval period saw a revival during the Tudor era. Because the majority of noble ...

When you look at the works of the great masters like Rembrandt, Botticelli, Rubens, Holbein and a bunch of others, it seems like the reality portrayed there couldn’t be further from today.