Happy Birthday Henry VIII
Happy Birthday Henry VIII On 28 June 2018, Henry VIII will celebrate his 527th birthday. From...
Archives: Curators
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...
Starting in September: Our New MA in Heritage...
If you really want to get a discussion going at a dinner party the topic of heritage...
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...
Tudor Kitchens Have Re-opened!
My lunch today was a cut above the usual miserable-looking sandwich at my desk. I was...
Reopening a Revealing Exhibition on Queen Victoria
This month, Victoria Revealed, an exhibition about the life of Queen Victoria, reopened at Kensington Palace...
Do today’s tweeting feminists have anything in...
Today, February 6th 2018, is the centenary of the Representation of the People Act which gave...
Caroline of Ansbach-The Brainiest Princess
George Augustus of Hanover and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach arrived in London in 1714, in...
The only time the Tower was breached…
At the Tower of London, William the Conqueror’s White Tower, and the huge curtain walls of...