Architectural drawings reveal the transformation of the Tower
It's #ExploreYourArchive Week! To celebrate, curatorial archivist Tom Drysdale presents some of his highlights from ...
Category: Tower of London
Outliers: The rise and fall of Eleanor Cobham
Season Two of HRP’s Outliers podcast is here – our history fiction podcast that ...
Never forget: Poppies and other symbols of remembrance
Here in the UK poppies have become ubiquitous as symbols of remembrance. But how ...
Public emotions: what can we learn from Tower Poppies?
Dr Megan Gooch, AHRC Leadership Fellow, and Dr Eleanor O'Keeffe are researching the many ways ...
Life and death at the Tower of London: excavating the Tower’s chapel
Earlier this year, once-in-a-generation excavation works taking place outside the entrance to the Tower's ...
A royal arrival: the birth of Elizabeth I
On 7 September 1533, Queen consort of England Anne Boleyn gave birth to her ...
Thomas Cromwell’s Execution
On 28 July 1540, Henry VIII married wife no. 5, Katherine Howard. Although he ...
From hero to zero: Sir Walter Raleigh at the Tower of London
On 19 July 1603, the Tower received one of the most famous prisoners in ...
A soldier and an artist: the life and death of William George Storm
In this blog post, Curator of Historic Buildings Dr Alden Gregory reveals the moving ...