Happy Birthday Henry VIII
Happy Birthday Henry VIII On 28 June 2018, Henry VIII will celebrate his 527th birthday. From...
Category: Hampton Court Palace
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...
Queen Victoria’s petticoat wrapped up!
In the last post we saw how Queen Victoria’s petticoat has been conserved. It is now...
Cataloguing samples – An Intern’s View
How do you catalogue architectural samples and object fragments? That was the question, or rather...