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Virtual Reality helping people visit a 14th century Welsh Prince’s home
“Born in 1359, he was the last native Prince of Wales and led an uprising against England.Nothing remains of his fortified residence near the English border at Sycharth in Powys. But now his home has been recreated for a video tour based on details given in a medieval Welsh poem by the bard Iolo Goch.”
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-49664500
Nine Pubs Fighting for the title of the oldest
“There are 9 pubs in the running for the title of ‘oldest pub in London’, and they all have rather good arguments in their favour – which do you think deserves the accolade?”
Read more: https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/9-pubs-fighting-title-the-16857325
Edward VI rare half-sovereign in auction:
“When Henry VIII died, the state of English coinage was so woeful that his son, Edward VI, refused to issue the coins with his new portrait under his own name. Continual debasement of English coinage during his father’s reign (to help pay for Henry VIII’s profligate spending) eroded the coins’ precious metal value, a practice especially evident with the silver coinage but even affecting gold coins. A rare gold half sovereign issued by Edward VI, but with his deceased father’s name, is a compelling highlight of the second auction from Sovereign Rarities and the Royal Mint.
https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/edward-vi-s-rare-gold-half-sovereign-in-auction
Henry III Elizabeth’s Unlikely Ally
“She was the defiantly Protestant queen of England, he the Catholic king of France. And yet, against the odds, the two became firm friends. Estelle Paranque reveals how common enemies drove Henri III and Elizabeth I into one another’s affections”
read more: https://www.historyextra.com/period/elizabethan/queen-elizabeth-i-unlikely-ally-henri-iii-french-king/
Travel
“As a renewed Agincourt museum is set to open near the site of the pivotal Hundred Years’ War battle between English and French armies, History Extra spoke to Professor Anne Curry about the historical facts that drive the new attraction”
Read more: https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/revamped-agincourt-museum-france-what-expect-battle-numbers/
Ian Visits the Oldest Brick Building in London
“It looks like a fairly ordinary moderately old building next to a dirty noisy main road – but this old building is older than you could ever imagine. It’s actually thought to be the oldest brick built building in London – and over 500 years old.” It was also a home of Elizabeth Blount for a time!
Read more: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/09/11/bromley-hall-the-oldest-brick-building-in-london/
Property:
“A STUNNING Lancashire estate with links to King Henry VI and more recent tragic history is now on sale for £4.25m.
Waddington Old Hall, which dates back to the 11th century in parts, once gave shelter to Henry VI during the War of the Roses.” Read more: https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2019/09/10/stunning-estate-where-henry-vi-sought-shelter-during-wars-of-the-roses-on-sale-for-4-25m/
Buy this pub
“It is believed the pub was built by Holcroft family in 1562 providing direct links with Colonel Thomas Blood,and King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn via the Holcroft family.
As manorial lords existing as far back as the 13th century, they achieved notoriety through the marriage of their daughter Maria to Colonel Thomas Blood, an Irish adventurer.”
Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast,  the original Tudor history podcast, started in 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. In 2019 she created Tudorcon, which is now a yearly event, in addition to writing books, and running TudorFair.com - a whimsical Tudor Merch shop.
She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 30 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history (how exciting when she got to interview Alison for the first time!). In addition to history, she is passionate about travel, and has lived in 3 countries and 4 states (not counting her perpetual state of confusion), and her family (who help her host her YouTube channel occasionally).
