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Some of my favorite sites related to Lady Jane Grey and Tudor History
Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum
Sonja Marie's wonderful site full of every image and depiction of Jane Grey that you can imagine, lovingly assembeld together and maintained in one well designed site!
Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide
Contains a nicely sub-divided listing of various references, both reliable and unreliable, related to Jane Grey and those around her. Also contains a good "blog" that tracks news eminating from the UK that is not often picked up by the US press.
Tudor History.org
This site is devoted to the broader sweep of Tudor history and culture and contains a plethora of categories and sub- categories. An excellent place for the beginner to begin learning about the Tudor period. There is also a Question and Answer "blog " for submitting all kinds of inquiries on Tudor history. The blog is very efficiently maintained by Lara Eakins, so if your question has an answer, you will find it within 24 hours, generally.
Tudor Genealogies
Without question the best resource for discovering who is related to whom and how. The site creator lives in Argentina, and has proven to be amazingly thorough and accurate in his assemblage of genealogies for a significant number fo Tudor-era personages.
Hans Eworth
A new site, as of December 2009, by Hope Walker, a PhD student working on a catalogue raisonné (comprehensive and detailed list of works) for Hans Eworth, the artist who painted the Fitzwilliam portrait. The site promises to be very informative, since no art history scholar has yet produced a catalogue for Eworth, one of the more important portraitists working in England in the mid-Tudor period.
Tudor and Elizabethan Portrait Gallery
Displays a fine collection of period portraits of a variety of Tudor-era figures, principally royalty but including non- royals as well.
John Foxe's Actes and Monuments, or Book of Martyrs
Part of the University of Sheffield's ongoing research efforts on the famous text, this site makes Actes and Monuments available in its entirety in transcription. Under "Critical Apparatus" can be found the means for side-by-side comparison between the various sixteenth-century editions, searching by a variety of categories including personal names, places, dates, periods, and officeholders, as well as editorial commentary.
Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia of 1555
This site (The Philological Museum) is maintained by the University of Birmingham (UK) and the Shakespeare Institute. Under the "Library of Humanist Texts" section can be found an invaluable and extensive selection of sixteenth-century books that have been transcribed and, when necessary, translated into English. The most significant of these for those interested in Tudor history is Polydore Vergil's English History.
English Monarchs
A comprehensive listing of all of the monarchs of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, with biographical descriptions, plus information on royalty-related topics such as the Tower of London, the Crown Jewels, and the various Royal Residences.
National History Day
National History Day is not, strictly speaking, connected to Lady Jane Grey or Tudor /British history, but it is a program about which I have unbridled enthusiasm. It involves middle and high school students at every level from the local school to the state to national level in researching a chosen topic in history. The students then present their results in a format similar to the science fairs of some years ago. Entries are judged by panels of volunteer judges, and winners are eligible to advance to the next level. Each year a new theme is assigned for all competitors. In 2007, the theme was "Triumph and Tragedy." In 2008, the theme will be "Conflict and Compromise." I have been a judge at every level from single local schools to state competition, and I am amazed anew each year at the quality of the work produced by the students. I have also assisted students, via the Internet, in researching Lady Jane Grey as a research topic specifically for History Day. This is a program that is well worth "checking out."
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Updated 5 January 2010