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henry viii

Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series
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Talk 5: Textiles and text: A collaborative approach to conserving textile-covered manuscripts

Conservators Jane Eagan and Maria Hayward describe their work treating seven manuscripts re-covered in velvet for Henry VIII, part of a small corpus of royal books still in their textile bindings in the Queens College Library
Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection

Henry VIII Renaissance Medal

On Henry VIII and the Founding of the Church of England Minted at London in 1545, this medal shows a bust of Henry VIII, with inscriptions in Hebrew and Greek on the reverse.
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

Kings and peoples

This lecture argues that engagement in war vitally shaped the relationship of Henry VIII's subjects with the king and with his immediate successors.
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

Killing and dying

This lecture asks what weapons people owned in Henry VIII's England and whether they knew how to use them, some of its evidence drawn from coroners' inquests into accidents with bows, guns and swords.
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

Trade and tillage

This lecture examines war and the economy in Henry VIII's England: heavy taxation and disrupted trade threatened recession.
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

Noblemen and gentlemen

This lecture explores how military service related to the social power and self-image of lords and gentlemen in Henry VIII's England.
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

Towns and villages

This lecture uses the records of hundreds of parishes and boroughs to see how communities coped with the pressures of war in Henry VIII's England.
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

Wars and Rumours of Wars

This lecture introduces the series and asks how many people took part in war in Henry VIII's England and how far those not directly involved were aware of what was happening.
Shakespeare's First Folio (ePub format)

The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight.

ePub version of text The Famous History of the Life of King HENRY the Eight. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

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