Issues And Difficulties

When researching and adapting the events of the personal relationship between the Tudor siblings: Mary, Elizabeth and Edward. So far there have been several issues and difficulties I’ve faced. The main one is that I’m writing about people who lived almost five hundred years ago. As such a completely accurate depiction of their personal relationship is going to be impossible to capture. It’s simply been too long since the events occurred.

Another issue I’m facing is that despite there being quite a lot written about each individual monarch and their reigns comparatively little has ever been written about their personal lives, especially in relation to each other. I was aware of this problem before I chose my topic; in fact it was one of the things that drew me to writing about it. As such this limits the already finite amount of resources I have to draw from.

A quite major issue is simply the practicality of looking for this information. I have neither the funds nor the time to scour every single possible resource across the country. As such up to this point I’ve been forced to get my research from books or websites. It has likewise been quite slow. I do plan to try and visit Bodleian Library in Oxford at my earliest possible convenience. With their wide range of sources, it will hopefully find more available information.

A final issue I have to contend with is the subject of bias. In what has been written about the Tudor siblings and their relationships, there is always the concern of whether or not the source is biased. These sources were after all written during or about a time when Britain was going through a great dissidence of both politics and religion. Likewise the siblings belonged to multiple different factions during said nonconformity. This dissidence could have shaped the authors opinion and interpretation of the events.