Tag: John Dee

Today marks the 485th anniversary of the birth of one of my favourite Tudor men, John Dee. Happy 485th birthday,…

Blur and Gorillaz front man, Damon Albarn, has just staged the premiere of “Dr Dee” at the Palace Theatre in…

I asked Robert Parry, author of “Virgin and the Crab” which has John Dee as one of its main characters,…

One of my favourite Elizabethan characters is John Dee, the famous scholar, astrologer, astronomer, mathematician and scientist, a man who…

This is the second part of author Robert Parry’s examination of the “Cambridge Connections” which Anne Boleyn gave her daughter,…

Back at the beginning of May, I wrote an article entitled “The Fall of Anne Boleyn” where I mentioned the…

451 years ago today, at 12pm on January 15th 1559*, Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England, a huge achievement…

Today, we are lucky enough to have another guest post by Robert Parry, author of one of my favourite historical…

 Today we are honoured to have another guest post, this time from Robert Parry, author of the wonderful novel “The…

This post has been sparked off by the wonderful novel that I’m reading at the moment – “The Virgin and…