{"id":19508,"date":"2026-04-07T12:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=19508"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:19:02","slug":"my-review-of-the-illustrated-tudor-dictionary-by-simon-sandys-winsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=19508","title":{"rendered":"My review of &#8216;The Illustrated Tudor Dictionary&#8217; by Simon Sandys-Winsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18650\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18650\" src=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/91bYAWGeUaL._SY466_-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/91bYAWGeUaL._SY466_-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/91bYAWGeUaL._SY466_.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center> (c) Pen and Sword<\/center><\/p><\/div>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>A very useful addition to any Tudor bookshelves! <\/p>\n<p>The dictionary covers events (such as the Field of the Cloth of Gold, the Evil May Day &#038; Dissolution of the Monasteries), people (from the Tudor monarchs to Sir William Butts and Will Somers), as well as wars, places and religion. <\/p>\n<p>Each entry&#8217;s text highlights other featured topics, making it easy to connect various subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I was happy to see that Lady Jane Grey had her own entry. In Jane\u2019s case the featured topics include the Tower of London, Wyatt\u2019s Rebellion, humanist education and John Dudley, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p><b>Thank you to Pen and Sword and Net Galley for my review copy<\/b><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very useful addition to any Tudor bookshelves! The dictionary covers events (such as the Field of the Cloth of Gold, the Evil May Day &#038; Dissolution of the Monasteries), people (from the Tudor monarchs to Sir William Butts and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=19508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[276],"tags":[466,927,928],"class_list":["post-19508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-book-reviews","tag-simon-sandys-winsch","tag-the-illustrated-tudor-dictionary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19526,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19508\/revisions\/19526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}