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  In the footsteps of Anne Boleyn By Natalie Grueninger and Sarah  Morris Hello, my book lovers! How are you all doing? I hope you've read plenty of books in the sun!  So, I am recommending "In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn" this month. I first read this book when I was 14, and it made me want to visit every building Anne Boleyn set foot in. I can say this for all Anne Boleyn fans going to historic buildings she has set foot in is few and far between.  You have the obvious ones, like, Hever Castle, Hampton Court and the Tower of London but where else did Anne Boleyn go? And do they still survive? It became pretty clear to me that both Natalie and Sarah put a lot of work into the research of this book, they themselves have visited all the buildings too, so they could give us, the reader, a more personal experience and a more realistic one too. I loved this book for the fact I felt I was walking in Anne Boleyn's footsteps, literally. I have in fact been to some of the b...

  The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn    B y Sir Eric Ives Hello, my fellow history nerds! H ow are you all doing? This month I am recommending The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Sir Eric Ives. This book is a holy grail when it comes to reading and researching Anne's life. This book was published in the 1980s. So it has been around for a long time, but it is such a good book, for me, this is the holy grail when it comes to reading about Anne Boleyn, there is much more up-to-date research and books about Anne, but I always refer to this.  Eric Ives has gone into such detail, but it is not a hard read, it feels very much like he is having a conversation with you. It does not feel like a lecture, because sometimes non-fiction feels like someone throwing so much information at you and you are not actually learning anything. I only bought this book last year as I have always thought maybe it was overhyped because it was the first of its kind regarding Anne Boleyn, but as ...