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Teacher’s Resources
Books
The Private Life of Henry VIII by Lajos Biro
The Medieval Village by G.G. Coulton
Bruegel by Jacques Dopange
Great Harry by Carolyn Erickson
A Complete Guide to Heraldry by A.C. Fox-Davies
Life in the Renaissance by Marzieh Gail
Royal Gambit by Hermann Gressieker
The Rose and the Thorn: The Lives of Mary and Margaret Tudor by Nancy Lenz Harvey
Anne Boleyn by E.W. Ives
Katherine of Aragon by Jean Plaidy
The Six of Henry VIII by Paul Rival
King Henry VII's Mary Rose by Alexander McKee
Web
Music and Song
The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft, from Greg Lindahl.
Sixteenth Century Ballads and A Short Note on Sixteenth Century Child Ballads, also from Greg Lindahl.
Playford's The Dancing Master Or, plain and easie Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, with the Tune to each Dance. The HTML version by Jeff Lee.
A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments at Iowa State University
The Schoole of Musicke by Thomas Robinson, 1603. An HTML version by Jeff Lee.
The First Book of English Madrigals by John Wilbye (1598). Also from Jeff Lee.
People and Portraits
Elizabeth I at Luminarium includes her life, works, essays, and an image gallery.
16th Century Renaissance English Literature at Luminarium includes individual pages on writers of the period.
Who's Who in Tudor History, with portraits and short biographies.
Videos
A Man for All Seasons (rated G)
A Matter of Conscience: Henry VIII and Sir Thomas Moore
Anne of the Thousand Days (rated PG)
Henry VIII (BBC Production - rated G)
Biography - Elizabeth I (A&E Production - rated G)
Young Bess (rated G)
Fire Over England (rated G)
Mary of Scotland (rated G)
The Virgin Queen (rated G)
Elizabeth (rated R for nudity and extreme violence)
Shakespeare in Love (rated R for nudity)
Jane Grey (rated PG-13 for brief nudity)
