‘Lost’ Tudor book ‘hiding in plain sight’

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The Book of Hours
The Book of Hours
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Thomas Cromwell’s Book of Hours was “thought to be a lost relic of Henry VIII’s court”, said The Times, but “it transpires that it’s been hiding in plain sight for 363 years”. The book, which was immortalised in one of the most famous portraits from Tudor England, has been sitting quietly in a Cambridge library, researchers have found. Tracy Borman, the Tudor historian, said it was “the most exciting Cromwell discovery in a generation — if not more”.

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Man climbs Ben Nevis with barbell

A man has carried a 100kg (220lb) barbell on his shoulders up Ben Nevis to raise money for motor neurone disease research. David Dooher, a mountain rescuer, spent six months training for the event, in aid of a charity set up by former Scotland rugby international Doddie Weir, who died after being diagnosed with MBD. Ben Nevis is Britain’s highest mountain at 1,345m (4,413 ft). It took Dooher 16 and a half hours to complete his walk, noted the BBC.

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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.