The Tudor England website is a labor of love which was
established in the summer of 1997. Since then, thousands of visitors
have used it for entertainment and research. And the site has grown and
will undoubtedly keep growing until I develop Tudoritis. This condition
occurs when one spends too much time reading about Henry VIII and too little
time outside interacting with other human beings. The sufferer can be
identified by pale, clammy skin, fingers stiffened from too much typing and
eyes reddened from too much reading, squinting and peering at the computer
screen. They are apt to eat mutton, drink ale and find portraits of
Thomas Seymour the ultimate in sexiness. They mutter such phrases as
"God's oath!" and begin every sentence with the word "thou".
Avoid them at all costs. If contact cannot be avoided, hit
them with a copy of John Guy's Tudor England.
There is no cure for Tudoritis but it can be controlled through a
strict diet of just one Tudor-related book a week.
Everything at this site was written by me; every
fact was checked and double-checked.
In the course
of my research, I have happily noted that this site is more accurate than
many books published about Tudor England. In other words, despite
the many warnings about internet inaccuracies, the printed page does not
guarantee either truth or objectivity.
Respect for the work involved in
creating and maintaining internet sites is sorely lacking in some
visitors. If you would like to borrow an image or bit of text,
please write
and ask. I have yet to turn anyone down and such simple courtesy
means a great deal.
Click here for help with
research, including the correct Turabian/MLA citation style for internet
sources and various copyright issues, and here for a shorter
discussion of copyright. If you would like to learn more about the right
to reproduce works of art on the internet, please click
here.
As for me, I'm just a girl who lives in Annapolis. You are welcome to write to
me with questions and comments. I try to respond to most messages
within a couple of weeks.