quotes about Tudors
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In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
-- Charlotte Turner SmithSource : Charlotte Turner Smith, Stuart Curran (2006). “The Works of Charlotte Smith: Marchmont (1796)”
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What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.
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My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
-- Deborah Harkness -
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I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.
-- Ilka ChaseSource : Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada
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These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing intermarriage between Celtic and English dynasties - helped to consolidate a new unitary ruling class in place of the more separate and specific landed establishments that had characterised England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Tudor and Stuart eras.
-- Linda ColleySource : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.161, Yale University Press
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I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.
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Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.
-- Tod Machover -