TY - GEN AU - Pipe, Jim TI - The Tudors: a very peculiar history T2 - Very peculiar history SN - 9781907184581 CY - Great Britain KW - Royalty KW - Historical facts KW - Juvenile Literature KW - Non-Fiction KW - Kings and Queens N2 - The Tudors were an odd bunch, more odd than their subjects, perhaps. When they weren’t beheading wives and enemies they were threatening to, or going around earning themselves nicknames like ‘Bloody Mary’ and ‘The 9 Day Queen’. The Tudors: A Very Peculiar History tells the story of the Tudor monarchs, their castles, their lives and their subjects in a time when it was fashionable to slash up your clothes for that fresh from battleA” look. The book details each monarch’s reign and casts light on the more bizarre elements of their time in power, right down to an analysis of their seals and signatures and the various torture and execution methods they liked to use ER -