‘The world becomes more evil everyday’: Happy New Year from the...

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Emma Shepley

New Year’s Cards? The first English Christmas cards were famously printed in 1843 by busy ...

Who wore it? Researching Queen Victoria's children’s clothes

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Emma Olver

With the exhibition, Victoria: Woman and Crown, coming to an end at Kensington Palace, ...

Caring for the Architectural Drawings Collection

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Tom Drysdale

Caring for Historic Royal Palaces’ Architectural Drawings Collection is a varied job and no ...

From the archives: Drawings of Kew, Kensington and Banqueting House

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Tom Drysdale

In this blog post, curatorial archivist Tom Drysdale presents some of his highlights from ...

Exploring the drawings of Hampton Court Palace's past

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Tom Drysdale

Hampton Court Palace is the greatest surviving Tudor palace. For over a hundred years ...

Architectural drawings reveal the transformation of the Tower

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Tom Drysdale

It's #ExploreYourArchive Week! To celebrate, curatorial archivist Tom Drysdale presents some of his highlights from ...

Triumph and tragedy: Jane Seymour's final days at Hampton Court Palace

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Tracy Borman

On 24 October 1537, Queen Jane Seymour died at Hampton Court Palace, just twelve ...

Life and death at the Tower of London: excavating the Tower’s chapel

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Alfred Hawkins

Earlier this year, once-in-a-generation excavation works taking place outside the entrance to the Tower's ...

Decadent art at Hampton Court Palace

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Brett Dolman

Over the summer, the Communication Gallery at Hampton Court Palace underwent a re-hang of ...