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Kent College History's curator insight,
July 15, 2017 9:49 AM
'He may not win many popularity contests but, says Steven Gunn, Henry VII set the blueprint for a dynasty that was to make England a global power ...'
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Kent College History's curator insight,
May 30, 2017 11:40 AM
'She was pregnant at 12, widowed by the Wars of the Roses and almost died at the hands of Richard III. But, writes Michael Jones, nothing could prevent the indomitable Margaret Beaufort from engineering the rise of her son, Henry VII, to the English throne…'
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Kent College History's curator insight,
July 15, 2017 9:46 AM
'What can the private financial accounts of Henry VII tell us about England’s first Tudor monarch? Ahead of a new University of Winchester project to digitise the text of Henry VII’s Chamber Books and those of Henry VIII up to 1521, senior lecturer Dr James Ross takes a look at five items on which the king spent his money …'
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John Cabot in traditional Venetian garb by Giustino Menescardi (1762). A mural painting in the Sala dello Scudo in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice. While Christopher Columbus' monumentally bad sense of direction in 1492, which led to his discovery of the Americas, has been celebrated down the centuries as the pinnacle of the Age of Discovery, the equally confused meanderings of his countryman, John Cabot, have perhaps received less attention than they deserve. Via Kent College History
Kent College History's curator insight,
November 22, 2016 7:19 AM
'When Cabot's ship, the Matthew, landed in what today is eastern Canada in June 1497, he began Britain's long and eventful association with the New World that continues to this day.'
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