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?

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

Jean plaidy books

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!

One person's lightweight is another person's heavy

Kentwell

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

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!

That is good to hear; I will get those.

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.

Shakespeare in love...

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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