Wanted

Watching each other...

You all have a homework task to add to your youthful burdens. It is time to do some peer review. Don't just post on your own blog; write some comments on the blogs of your fellow sufferers. Try to write something thoughtful.

Watching the Tudors

Just saw my first "The Tudors" episode on the ABC the other night. Did I really hear Henry VIII say to his latest boudoir babe, "Do you consent?" Did the scriptwriting team consult on this? Did they think that Henry VIII knew that, "No means no"?

In Borders

Spent 15 minutes in Borders bookshop in Canberra reading The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England By Emerson W. Baker. Realised there is heaps on Alice's topic. Looked at Borders catalogue online!!!! There is no lack of info and theories to pick from.

Cartoons

Interesting

My goodness – David Irving keeps an internet diary. Talks a great deal about his daughters. Calls Richard Evans, “Skunky” (complete with animated skunk). The site itself is a revisionist nightmare. I feel a little soiled looking at it.
http://www.fpp.co.uk/docs/Irving/RadDi/2009/240409.html
Googled “Salem Witch Trials bibliography” and found quite a list of resources. Like this one from the Houston Public Library.
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/salem-witchcraft-in-1692-a-bibliography

It seems Keith Windshuttle has a website too.
http://www.sydneyline.com/
Looks like it will be a good resource for Beth. He obviously hates Manne as much as Irving hates Evans. The debate between them seems a little more civilized though. The first thing on the site is a speech Windshuttle gave to a History Extension conference this year.

Wasted some time on Youtube. What is it about the appearance of Anne and Mary Boleyn in “The Tudors” that makes them look wrong? Somehow Portman and whatshername look more authentic in “The Other Boleyn Girl” (despite being improbably beautiful). Found out that Boleyn was just a posh way of writing Bullen for that social climbing family.

Work to do...

So it seems like I need to start reading about Keith Windshuttle, Salem Witch Trials, David Irving and Tudor Women. I'm probably well ahead of Audrey on David Irving but I had better investigate the latest on his website. Also be interested in the book put out about the judgement at the trial. The Crucible is my second favourite play...so I'm up to speed on that. Sadly I know almost nothing about the real witch hunts at Salem so I will need to get moving to keep up with Alice. Not sure where to start there yet. (I think there is a "reader" published so will start looking.) My knowledge of Windshuttle was good 10 years ago but have not read much since. Have a vague recollection of a recent review of his second volume of revisionist history. Will have to get up to date there, but I have time because Beth isn't sure where she is heading yet. Clearly I'm going to have to get "The Tudors" and watch it. Depends where Zan goes with it all. Saw The Other Boleyn Girl in the 2nd hand shop opposite the station in Springwood (holiday reading?). Read Wolf Hall - a cracker. Vividly remember Vanessa Redgrave in Six Wives of Henry VIII. Was a great series. Wonder how dated it is now. Interesting - "dated", how can a history TV series become "dated"?