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[PetiteRaleuse]

Good morning. I have started the week with a rant about getting old before my time here

This weekly series of threads has been great for my blog. Great for hits, great for feedback and great networking and discovery of other blogs. So don't just post and run, try and take a moment to look through what we've all got to offer. There's so much variety and great writing on here.

Also, this week is the MN week for their Miscarriage Code of Care Campaign. MmeLindor has been co-ordinating the blogging side of this so will be able to remind us how we can get involved if we wish.

I did Early Modern History A Level as well. I'd been obsessing about Anne Boleyn since I was a very little girl (I was raised by my grandparents who banned me from reading children's books and instead read me history books every night) and if I'd been told back then that one day I would be bored rigid by the Tudors and everything about them, I would have laughed derisively and at length. :)

I think the main thing that has turned me off them is that as time goes on and the popular obsessing continues, the quality of films, books and articles on the Tudor dynasty is definitely decreasing. I wish it would just peak and then we can have more books and interest in other periods like the English Civil War, for instance which deserves a lot more attention than it currently gets. ;)

It is true there are many periods which don't get enough attention but which are as interesting.

Maybe there's so much at the moment because it's our generation that studied the period at A Level who are now writing the books and the TV shows etc.

Today I'm whinging about trading cards
I liked the book post above and as the mum of 3 DD's have to say i've NEVER bought a girl's book of anything!

I'm not sure. I was lucky enough to go to a sixth form that offered four different types of History A Level (and most people still went for the more usual modern history course) but I think most only offer one, in Modern History.

There were plenty of books about when I was studying it - I remember one of my classmates completely ballsed up his interview at Warwick with the great Professor Scarisbrick, much to our mirth. I'm pretty sure the current deluge is down to Wolf Hall and The Tudors.

Oh and The Other Boleyn Girl.

I thought I posted a link to my weaning post yesterday confused.Any way, really taken in with the history talk.I'm learning lots.I met MmeGuillotine last week.Who is very lovely :)

I've meant to blog about Tudor Ennui for a while now but this finally spurred me to nail my colours to the mast about the whole thing! ;)

Aw, thank you! You are lovely too! xx

A post about stubborn parents!

Wolf Hall...very literary so not to everyone's taste. I wouldn't beat yourself up for not enjoying it.

I actually quite enjoyed the Other Boleyn Girl book (I can't remember what she says about Mary's daughter Catherine's paternity) but I never watched the film. Couldn't face it.

I applied for history at Warwick - didn't need an interview though, wonder why, as I would have loved to meet him! I was lucky enough to meet David Starkey during my ALevel years a couple of years before he became omnipresent. I was starstruck, as I would have been in FB's position this week meeting Alison Weir I think he was still leacturing somewhere, and that day there was a special history day for A Levels at Manchester and he was a guest speaker.

I came across Alison Weir's Goodreads profile today and have been having a good laugh at all the one and two star ratings she gives to other books about the Tudors... ;)

Don't worry FB I'm not beating myself up over not enjoying it. I think it was the fact it was told in the present tense which jarred more than anything. It felt like she was trying too hard.

(I'm sure Hilary Mantel would be devastated by my assessment of her literary effort)

That is a good point - she did make him likeable which must have been a tough task.

She didn't just make him likeable though - I know I was far from being the only person to be troubled by peculiar thoughts of 'Oh my God, I think I fancy Thomas Cromwell now. How on earth did that happen?!'

A truly awful interview with BBC Wiltshire about Royal Wootton Bassett

Royal Wootton Bassett

I am without doubt the worst military wife on the planet!!!! Actually - in a way that is kind of something to be proud of!

I've made a new post about daily cultural clashes..

at fancying Thomas Cromwell, MmeG!

Petite -The Other Boleyn Girl was very inaccurate, I'm afraid!

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I'm sick of the second world war being everywhere! Not very useful when I'm trying to find books ranging from the hundred years war to the abolition of slavery!
And I can't fecking stand Churchill!

FB I'm aware of that but when Gregory can exaggerate to make sth more scandalous she does, which is why I was wondering what she said that's all. Gregory says herself that she researches thoroughly but bends the truth to suit her story (as I think all hist fiction writers do to a certain extent).

MmeG are you quite sure you' re not the only one? :)

Oh no, I have had loads of chats with people all claiming the same thing! Totally mad.

I also love Lenin there's others that don't like Churchill?! I generally say I dont like him and run from the angry hoard accusing me of being anti British. Or maybe that's just my FIL