Links

 

Links to web resources

Images of Henry VIII

Images of Elizabeth I

Links to primary sources

Links to dance music - under construction

Many commercial recordings of Tudor period dances have the wrong repeat scheme or wrong speed to be used for dancing. There may be many other tracks more suitable and I would welcome suggestions, however my current list includes the following tracks.

Medieval

Henrician

Elizabethan and Jacobean

Track 10 for Gathering Peascods

Track 16 for Horses Bransle

Track 1 for Scots Bransle

Stuart

Links to books - under construction

The following books provide good background information about the tudor period

Henrician

Henry VIII: Man and Monarch by David Starkey

Henry VIII: King and Court

Archaeology of the Mary Rose by Julie Gardiner

The "Mary Rose": Your Noblest Shippe

The Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's Navy

The Inventory of King Henry VIII

Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII

Elizabethan and Jacobean

Elizabeth: Apprenticeship by David Starkey

Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir

The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock’d by Janet Arnold

A Survey of London

The Confident Hope Of A Miracle: The True History Of The Spanish Armada by Neil Hanson