Forgot to teach DD about history. Ideas for a summer of Tudors please.

[MrsJoyless]

I am aware that this parenting fail may shock you, but now DD has a long summer holiday from her science degree so I think I have just enough time to cram "The Tudors". Does anyone have any suggestions for suitable DVDs, lightweight historical novels or days out, please?

[AnneofGreenGablesAgain]

Wolf Hall as the book?
The Boleyn Girl to read?
Hever Castle
Hatfield house?
National Portrait Gallery to see all their portraits
Visit to the Globe?

[Misty9]

Wolf Hall is the opposite of lightweight reading in my opinion
There's a series on about the history of sugar and sweets at the moment and the first episode was all about the Tudors. Also there's been a few series on the BBC about the royalty of that time - Lucy Worsley does a lot of them I think. If you're near norwich we have lots of Tudor buildings

[MegBusset]

Hampton Court?
Wolf Hall fabulous but suggest the TV adaptation to save time!

[MrsJoyless]

Thank you. Hampton Court, Hever and Hatfield are just within reach and I suppose we should visit them in that order. I think Wolf Hall is too long, although I have only seen the TV version. Gallery trip is a possibility.

[MinisWin]

Depending how old she is, I learned essentially every bit of historical info I know, including about the Tudors (and Stewarts!) from Horrible Histories books, they are brilliant.

[MinisWin]

Just spied the science degree part ... although I'm not going to lie, I'd still happily read them now... I'm a doctor

[MrsJoyless]

I did say lightweight, this is supposed to be fun! We shall finish up with Blackadder, but it's only funny if you know what it's based on. Any recommendations for a film about Elizabeth I?

[kshaw]

There's a BBC drama called Elizabeth (with the added bonus of a young Tom hardy in it) it's definitely available to buy on Amazon not sure if other outlets - really good. I love a bit of Tudor stuff though. Also, there's some kindle books by Elizabeth freemantle that I've enjoyed - not sure if available in paper copy I'm afraid

[crumpet]

Jean plaidy books

[MrsJoyless]

Thank you all, I shall check out the kindle ideas tomorrow, and also the Globe. Don't know if we have the stamina for a whole TV series!

[AnneofGreenGablesAgain]

One person's lightweight is another person's heavy

[BarchesterFlowers]

Kentwell

[MrsJoyless]

Thanks for the Kentwell link, I would not have found that.

[Caenea]

There's Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett, which is very good and thoroughly enjoyable. It has a sequel too called Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

Both very good films and historically accurate!

[MrsJoyless]

That is good to hear; I will get those.

[DameDeDoubtance]

The films are great but they are not accurate at all.

The old Elizabeth series was great with Glenda Jackson, a;so the book Legacy by Susan Kay.

The Tudors is a fantastic series, though not accurate, still great fun.

Working out the bits that happened and the bits that didn't is a lesson in itself.

[picklemepopcorn]

Shakespeare in love...

[picklemepopcorn]

The globe in London, and somewhere like Chester and Nantwich, where you see the lovely Tudor buildings.

[BonnesVacances]

Can you get to Portsmouth? The Mary Rose is proper real Tudor history in the flesh.

[ProfessorBranestawm]

I'd watch any documentary with Lucy Worsley. The Six Wives one was brilliant, it made it slightly drama-ish rather than being a regular factual programme, and so much more real to me.

[LadyPeterWimsey]

Came on to say Wolf Hall, book or tv, but I guess it does take a bit of concentration.

I did the Tudors for A level and a bit in my degree, and now DS has picked two Tudor and Stuart papers for his degree, so I intend to revisit the period vicariously, and discover some more recent work on them.

DameDeDoubtance - love your name. Those books were last summer's reading discovery.

[MrsJoyless]

I leave the board just long enough to order the DVDs and come back to find they are not accurate...But still, enjoyable is good. Now how should I cover Henry VII?

[GemmaB78]

Phillipa Gregory's The Red Queen should cover Margaret Beaumont/Henry VII rather nicely!

Actually, any of her tudor/war of the roses stuff is fab.

[GemmaB78]

If you want accessible biographies, Alison Weir or David Starkey are excellent.

[historyismything]

There was a recent series on channel 4, I think, by dan Jones and Susannah Lipscombe about Elizabeth 1 that was very good.