{"id":666,"date":"2019-05-06T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/?p=666"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:47:00","slug":"enrichment-something-to-read-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/2019\/05\/06\/enrichment-something-to-read-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrichment &#8211; something to read."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/17620554.kate-williams-mary-queen-of-scots-proves-nothing-much-has-changed-on-our-attitudes-to-rape\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0you can read a\u00a0review of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Rival-Queens-Betrayal-Queen-Scots\/dp\/0091936705\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=rival+queens&amp;qid=1557141409&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1\">&#8220;Rival Queens&#8221; by\u00a0Professor Williams<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/\"><strong>The Herald<\/strong><\/a>. The book suggests &#8220;that story needs re-tuning&#8221;, and would be excellent summer reading for Year Twelve historians.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Mary crossed the Solway Firth to England in the hope her cousin Elizabeth I would help restore her to the Scottish throne, but instead Mary was kept a prisoner and eventually executed. It\u2019s a story that has produced two of the strongest images in the history of these islands: Elizabeth as regina triumphant, the woman with the heart and stomach of a king, and Mary as the tragic sovereign, duped by men and unsupported by the woman she turned to for help.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Below Professor Williams discusses her motivations for writing the book. I have a copy if anyone wants to borrow it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tJkXuXRMDZE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"top: 434px;\">Mr Kydd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you click\u00a0here\u00a0you can read a\u00a0review of\u00a0&#8220;Rival Queens&#8221; by\u00a0Professor Williams\u00a0in\u00a0The Herald. The book suggests &#8220;that story needs re-tuning&#8221;, and would be excellent summer reading for Year Twelve historians. &#8220;Mary crossed the Solway Firth to England in the hope her cousin &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/2019\/05\/06\/enrichment-something-to-read-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enrichment","category-historians","category-lizzie-in-the-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G99s-aK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}