A few resources I found useful and interesting are:
Maria Hubert’s Christmas in Shakespeare’s England
Simon Thurley’s Whitehall Palace: The Official Illustrated History. Most of Whitehall is gone now, of course, except for the Banquet Hall, but this book has old floor-plans and descriptions of the grand old palace.
Alison Sims’s Food and Feast in Tudor England Liza Picard’s Elizabeth’s London
Anne Somerset’s Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day
Janet Arnold’s Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock’d and Patterns of Fashion 1560–1620
Josephine Ross’s The Men Who Would Be King, about Queen Elizabeth’s many political courtships.
There are many good general biographies of Elizabeth I out there, but two I like are Alison Weir’s The Life of Elizabeth I and Anne Somerset’s Elizabeth I.
The manuscript of the traditional mummers’ play used in Anne Percy and Lord Langley’s scene came from one performed annually at the town of Chudling-ton in Oxfordshire, which was first written down in 1893, but which is said to have been performed in this form for hundreds of years before that!
I hope you enjoyed Anton and Rosamund’s Christmas romance! Be sure and visit my website at http://ammandamccabe.tripod.com, where I’ll be posting lots more fun research-titbits…
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