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fideidefenswhore · 2 years ago

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“Anne Boleyn fans adopt or reject accounts of historians based on how these historians interpret Anne [...] Eric Ives’ work is [lauded] [...] whereas Alison Weir’s work is considered with scepticism.”

Alison Weir does not have any degrees in history, and Ives’ biography of AB remains the most exhaustive to date? It’s disengenuous to treat these works as equivalent.

#also there are actually a lot of AB accounts (on instagram anyway) that really seem to love alison weir...?#like i haven't done statistics or whatever but this seems like a reach . at least by this year; at any rate #it is possible that this is because over the years and since the novelization . weir has developed a more sympathetic anne #but if you read her interviews it's quite clear she doesn't really 'believe' in it.... so.

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