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  • Burning at the stake

    Coming up at 1:24, I describe the burning of heretics in Smithfield:

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  • Secrets d’histoire – Marie la Sanglante

    Nice to have been able to get St Bartholomew the Great into this French TV history programme about Mary Tudor.

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  • 18 February 1516: Birth of Mary Tudor

    On this day in 1516 a child was born to Henry VIII and his first wife Katherine of Aragon who would become known to history as ‘Bloody Mary’, the scourge of English Protestants, ultimately responsible for the death by burning of scores of her subjects with whom she had profound disagreements over matters of religion.

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  • THE BURNING TIME Some more from the Introduction: Setting the scene

                  Of the burnings which took place in England between 1529 and 1558 by far the largest number occurred in one small area of London – the area known as (West) Smithfield. Just outside the City walls though still within its bounds, not far from Newgate prison, ten minutes’ walk from both the Guildhall and St

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  • THE BURNING TIME Introduction: Setting the scene

    Anne Askew was burnt at the stake along with John Lascelles (a lawyer and Gentleman of the King’s Privy Chamber), John Hadlam (a tailor from Essex) and John Hemsley (a former Franciscan friar), on 16 July 1546. A great stage was built at Smithfield for the convenience of Chancellor Wriothesley, other members of the Privy

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  • Reviews of The Burning Time

    David Aaronovitch in The Times “This gruesomely entertaining book examines the Tudor zeal for burning people in the name of religion, says David Aaronovitch.” Steve Tomkins in The Church Times Reviews at Goodreads.com Bob Duffy in The Washington Independent Review of Books “An authoritative chronicle of the gruesome era when religious dissenters met their end at the

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  • Crowd-funding The Burning Time

    When I was working on my last book Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina, I initiated a form of “crowd-funding” to help me finish it, and was fortunate that this met with a good reception from a number of friends who, in return for a contribution of £50, received the

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  • Barts Square

    Yesterday evening, along with fellow Ward Councillor Clare James, I attended a meeting at 200 Aldersgate, arranged by DP9 & Helical Bar, when new preliminary designs for the external appearance of the building known as NBC3, & part of the proposed Barts Square development, were presented to residents, as part of an informal consultation exercise.

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