Pieces of the past: recreating a 17th century...
I’m a volunteer at Hampton Court Palace and for the past year I have been working...
Category: Hampton Court Palace
Portable Palaces: The Guild of the Golden Star
Visit to the Tent of the Guild of the Golden Star In our quest to understand...
Happy Birthday Henry VIII
Happy Birthday Henry VIII On 28 June 2018, Henry VIII will celebrate his 527th birthday. From...
A Tudor World Cup
Henry VIII’s World Cup Curators are not usually, in my experience, football obsessives. The ‘Miracle of...
Portable Palaces: Experimental Archaeology Update
Previous project blogs have introduced The Portable Palaces Project which is investigating Tudor royal tents and...
Gibbons goes from Hampton Court to Fairfax House...
Volunteering at HCP As a volunteer at Historic Royal Palaces for several years, I was delighted...
Royal Acorns: Wallpaper Designs at Hampton Court...
‘Mighty oaks from little acorns grow’ The oak is celebrated as England’s national tree and plays a...
Gibbons travels to Fairfax House – Part 1
“The Genius of Grinling Gibbons from Journeyman to King’s Carver” How do you put on a...
Tudor Kitchens Have Re-opened!
My lunch today was a cut above the usual miserable-looking sandwich at my desk. I was...
Object of the month: maiolica
The Collections Management team at Historic Royal Palaces runs an ‘object of the month’ competition to...