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The different media portrayals of Anne Boleyn Hello, my history nerds! How are you all doing? Ready for me to talk about Anne Boleyn again? Anne Boleyn has always had her name besmirched by propaganda, both in her lifetime and after. Anne Boleyn had a resurgence in popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries and during the reign of Queen Victoria, where Anne was seen as more of a victim who was mistreated by her husband, Henry VIII. After 300 years of being branded as a whore and ‘the scandal of Christendom’, Anne was starting to be seen in a new light.  By the 20th century, many novelists and playwrights such as Maxwell Anderson, writer of “Anne of the Thousand Days”, were full of praise for Anne, and their writings were more sympathetic towards her than previous accounts. Anne of Thousand Days was a play first shown in 1949 with the titular role played by Joyce Redman and then transformed into an award-winning film in 1969 starring Genevieve Bujold. Genevieve Bujold is one of our m...

We all know the story of Henry VIII and his six wives, but I still like to talk about them from time to time. Anne Boleyn, witch, seducer, or just not that bad? Anne Boleyn is quite the infamous lady, whether it's good or bad, she's the most famous of Henry's wives. Anne Boleyn was born between 1501 and 1507, I believe she was born in 1501. She wasn't royal like her predecessor, Catherine of Aragon, but she was the daughter of a noble family, the Boleyns and the Howards. The Boleyns were very much social climbers, they had to climb their way into prominence. Thomas Boleyn, Anne's father, put the family into the limelight. However, Thomas was not the master manipulator everybody likes to believe, he didn't push Mary or Anne into the king's arms, there is actually documentation to show that Thomas tried to dissuade Anne from marrying the king  in 1531.  It is safe to say Anne Boleyn became the King's obsession. I think it is hard to say Henry VIII and Anne...