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This painting by William
Powell Frith from 1903 was
inspired by a story of Henry
and Anne hunting deer in
Windsor Forest together. In his
autobiography Frith explained
the loving scene retained hints
of malice in its composition

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Who were the Boleyn family? Opportunists? University of Leeds. It was her course in my final
Manipulators? Radicals? So much has been said year at university that introduced me to this story, Editor’s picks
and examined in the relationship between Anne of Manchester men and women attacked by local
Boleyn and Henry VIII, but what of the rest of authorities for having the temerity to stand up and The Heretic Pharaoh
the clan whose fortunes were pinned, for good ask for representation. It was a powerful event to 56 Charlotte Booth takes us
and ill, on Anne’s ascension to the throne? This learn about and one whose resonance I still feel back to Akhenaten, the
pharaoh who attempted
issue we wanted to reexamine the story and not today. Hopefully to supplant the
only explore the motivations and methods of you’ll get some sense pantheon of gods with
worshipofthesun
the Boleyns as they climbed the social standing of its importance
of Henry’s court, but also Anne’s part in those and influence in our 64 Women Of Apollo
Our own Jessica Leggett
plans and to what extent she was a participant or feature this issue. I speaks with two of the
driving force behind them. We welcome back Dr hope Prof. Honeyman women who were at
the heart of the Apollo
Nicola Tallis to take us through that journey of a would have approved program about their

Tudor dynasty being born and then brutally cut and I hope, as ever, experiences at NASA
down in short order. you enjoy the issue. 70 GhostsOfChernobyl
Elsewhere this issue we looked at the We welcome Susan
Colbourn, an expert in
anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre and I Jonathan the Cold War and nuclear
couldn’t help but think of an old lecturer of mine, Gordon history to examine the
aftermath of the disaster
Professor Katrina Honeyman, who worked at the Editor in Pripyat

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