Henry VIII's Medieval Queens in Popular Media
Project by Jillian Ducker, supervised by Dr. Jacqueline Rose for the school of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews.
Student , University of St. Andrews
I am a current undergraduate student at St. Andrews University and am part of the 2020/2021 Laidlaw cohort. I am a history and international relations joint honours student at the university. I am extremely passionate about historical research, especially early modern gender studies and intellectual history. My interest in international relations lies in decolonial studies and activism, as well as the burgeoning field of feminist research. My research project for the summer of 2020 is a study of the representation of the wives of Henry VIII in popular media. I hope to explicate both the modern influence in these representations, as well as tracing the historical mythos surrounding these women by examining similarities to much older popular media about these Queens.
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I really enjoyed this piece! There is clearly a strong correlation between media representations and the impact on researchers here. That being said I am wondering how these representations would change moving into the 21st century- the musical Six (2017) is one example that may have changed the representation of the queens, especially since it reached mainstream media!