| The Tudor England website is a labor of love which was established in the summer of 1997. Since then, thousands of visitors have used it for entertainment and research. And the site has grown and will undoubtedly keep growing until I develop Tudoritis. This condition occurs when one spends too much time reading about Henry VIII and too little time outside interacting with other human beings. The sufferer can be identified by pale, clammy skin, fingers stiffened from too much typing and eyes reddened from too much reading, squinting and peering at the computer screen. They are apt to eat mutton, drink ale and find portraits of Thomas Seymour the ultimate in sexiness. They mutter such phrases as "God's oath!" and begin every sentence with the word "thou". Avoid them at all costs. If contact cannot be avoided, hit them with a copy of John Guy's Tudor England. There is no cure for Tudoritis but it can be controlled through a strict diet of just one Tudor-related book a week. Everything at this site was written by me; every fact was checked and double-checked. In the course of my research, I have happily noted that this site is more accurate than many books published about Tudor England. In other words, despite the many warnings about internet inaccuracies, the printed page does not guarantee either truth or objectivity. Respect for the work involved in creating and maintaining internet sites is sorely lacking in some visitors. If you would like to borrow an image or bit of text, please write and ask. I have yet to turn anyone down and such simple courtesy means a great deal. Click here for help with research, including the correct Turabian/MLA citation style for internet sources and various copyright issues, and here for a shorter discussion of copyright. If you would like to learn more about the right to reproduce works of art on the internet, please click here. As for me, I'm just a girl who lives in Annapolis. You are welcome to write to me with questions and comments. I try to respond to most messages within a couple of weeks. to Tudor England |