Dancing Village Plague
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Tragedy of Tudor queens: Wives of Henry VIII (pt 1)
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About this Episode
In this episode the team dips their toes into the history of the first two wives of Henry VIII. Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.
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Sources for this episode -
Hans Holzer, Ghosts I've Met
Warnicke, Retha M. (1991). The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 235. ISBN 9780521406772.
Bell, Doyne C. (1877). Notices of the Historic Persons Buried in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street.
Ives, Eric The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (2004) ISBN 1-4051-3463-1
Brigden, Susan New Worlds, Lost Worlds (2000)
Haigh, Christopher English Reformations (1993)
Graves, Michael Henry VIII. London, Pearson Longman, 2003 ISBN 0-582-38110-X
Strong, Roy Tudor & Jacobean Portraits. London: HMSO (1969)OCLC 71370718.
Scarisbrick, J. J. Henry VIII (1972) ISBN 978-0-520-01130-4
Starkey, David Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (2003) ISBN 0-06-000550-5
Fraser, Antonia The Wives of Henry VIII New York: Knopf (1992) ISBN 0-679-73001-X
Weir, Allison "The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn" ISBN 978-0-224-06319-7
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