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Two drawings by artist Paul Henry – one previously unknown – which have been in a private collection in New Zealand for over 70 years have been returned to Ireland and will be sold at auction ...
It was August1453. King Henry VI of England left his pregnant wife Margaret of Anjou at home and travelled from court to the West Country on a judicial visit. Stopping off at Clarendon Palace in ...
King Henry VI Was England's Most Disastrous King Posted: 4 April 2025 | Last updated: 4 April 2025 Some people just weren't born to rule—and Henry VI was one of them. From his tragic childhood ...
Shakespeare was mainly writing comedies in the early 1590s when he is believed to have coauthored the play we now call Henry VI Part 2 with Christopher Marlowe and others. Following the commercial ...
The coronation of the first Elizabeth is of considerable interest to us and of greater historical importance than most. Not only was it the last occasion on which the Latin service was used, as ...
Here’s what history tells us. Famously, Henry VIII had three legitimate children: Mary I, Elizabeth I, and Edward VI, whom he shared with his first three wives. All three took the throne at one time ...
as Henry VI would later lose the French lands his father fought so hard to secure. Dan Jones' biography sheds light on a king often remembered as "the greatest man who ever ruled England," while ...
Moore’s drawings made in underground shelters during WWII show us strangers whose lives had been shredded by grief, despair, and fear. Henry Moore, "Four Figures in a Setting" (1948), pen and ...
Productions of “Henry VI,” an early history play by Shakespeare written in three parts, don’t come around all that often. I’ve seen two in my lifetime, both of them wisely abridged into ...
I remember hearing the next day that Henry was sick to his stomach because he had been inhaling cigar smoke for eight hours straight, but never once did he waver.” The Superman star posted a ...