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Smithfield martyrs

  • 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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  • St Bartholomew’s birds

    A congregation of cacophonous starlings chatters vivaciously in the tops of two trees only and because of the birds’ blackness against an indigo sky and because they have chosen for conversation a graveyard by an ancient priory church alongside its sister hospital their chattering seems ominous, filled with dark knowledge. Birds whose ancestors witnessed the

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