Welcome back to your source for Tudor clothing and accessories with a touch of whimsey and silliness!

The Tudor Fair Blog

Tudor Minute July 14: Elizabeth Holidays at Kenilworth

Tudor Minute July 14: Elizabeth Holidays at Kenilworth
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 14.  In 1575 Elizabeth I spent 2 l...

Tudor Minute May 8: Elizabeth Signs the Act of Uniformity

Tudor Minute May 8: Elizabeth Signs the Act of Uniformity
Today in 1559 Elizabeth I signed the Act of Uniformity. This was part of the Elizabethan religious settlement and compromise which left no one fu...

Episode 104: Elizabeth and the Pretender, Don Antonio of Portugal

Episode 104 looks at Elizabeth’s relationship with the Portuguese Pretender, Don Antonio, when Philip II of Spain took the Portuguese throne. What does a Portuguese succession crisis have to do with Elizabeth? Listen to the episode to find out. (Remember, if you like this show on Tudor Astronomy, there are…

Continue reading

7 September 1533… Happy Birthday Princess Elizabeth

On 7 September 1533 a little girl came screaming into the world less than two weeks after her mother began her confinement period. She was a big surprise, though. Her father had risked excommunication, and separation from Christendom in order to have a son with her mother. She would not…

Continue reading

Tudor Times talks about James I of England

This month’s joint episode with Tudor Times is about their Person of the Month, James I. Here are the resources mentioned. Remember, if you like this show, there are two main ways you can support it. First (and free!) you can leave a review on iTunes. It really helps new…

Continue reading

Elizabeth I’s Working Holiday in Kenilworth

It’s not much of a secret that Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley had a Sort Of Thing going on in her court. The famously-Virgin Queen had one possible True Love – Robert Dudley, the 1st Earl of Leicester.  In 1575 Elizabeth was on one of her summer progresses through the…

Continue reading

Queen or Pope – Catholics in Elizabethan England

Caitlin Moran talks in her book, How to be a Woman, about the idea that often when we discover a particular book, we are suddenly introduced to all its friends, and so join this society that we hadn’t even known existed before.  So if you, for example, start reading Dorothy…

Continue reading

The Week in Books: Mary Queen of Scots wasn’t Actually a Catholic Martyr

I’ve been working on a podcast about Mary Queen of Scots, which I’ll be recording this week, and as part of that I’ve been reading John Guy’s book, Queen of Scots (available to read on Oyster, too).  Most people who know Elizabethan history are familiar with the story of the tragic Catholic queen,…

Continue reading