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The Tudors + Costumes

Mary Boleyn's pink, purple & golden dress and black & red cloak in Season 01, Episode 02.

Costumes + The Spanish Princess

Mary Tudor’s red cloak in Season 02, Episode 06.

Costumes + The Tudors

Anne Boleyn’s red and white dress with golden embroidery in Season 01, Episode 02.

Africa | Longueval | 27 Jul 1916

Africa The Prime Minister of South Africa, Louis Botha, has just arrived in German East Africa to find out first-hand why his crony Smuts’s grandiose predictions of victory have not, as yet, come to pass. On the face of it, there’s plenty to be optimistic about. Mind you, Botha would probably be less than totally willing to give the proper credit to the Indian Railway Battalions in theatre.…

Capture of Ovillers | 16 Jul 1916

Battle of the Somme Good news, everybody! One more pink name on our map of the Somme turns black today! After 16 days of on-and-off penny packet Woolworths slaughter, the BEF has captured Ovillers. One less German observation post into the rear, I suppose. Just before sunset the remaining German garriison raises the white flag. For the last little while, this stubborn post has been holding out…