Recently, most excellent Tudor Historian and joint chief curator for Historic Royal Palaces, Tracy Borman, was pottering in the National Archives, reviewing the Anne Boleyn trial documents before her new Channel 5 documentary on the subject (life goals or what) when an archivist brought her attention to something he’d uncovered in a warrant book. Tudor warrant books are relatively common in the National Archives, and chock-full of relatively unimportant (boring) detail. However this one, from 15...
Published on November 23, 2020 06:34