Portraits and Lies: Deciphering Personality from Tudor Portraiture
We’ve all looked back in horror at snapshots of days-gone-by and thought “what was ...
The Tudor Times, 17 November 1558 🗞
BREAKING NEWS: 'Bloody' Queen Mary is dead. Long live Queen Elizabeth!
It's a momentous day ...
Surviving lockdown: mindfulness, Tudor-style
As we all grow sick of staring at the same four walls during this ...
HRP Handover: Luke Pepera on a story of two kings
For our final HRP Handover for Black History Month 2020, we’re handing over to ...
Conservation of an 18th century headboard | Secrets of State Bed
In this blog post, conservator Viola Nicastro explains the process of conserving the headboard ...
Florimania comes to Hampton Court: diary of an exhibition
It’s Mothering Sunday on the 22 March and as usual at Hampton Court Palace ...
Celebrating Hillsborough Castle's Moss Walk
Although moss gardens are a relatively common sight in Japan there are very few ...
Super staff: International Women's Day
Throughout our sites’ 1,000 years of history, countless great women have played a part ...
Dangerous Women: The Cross-Dressing Cavalier Mary Frith
In her second blog post written as part of her Queer History work placement ...
Georgian Feminism: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, sexual-fluidity and...
Our Queer Lives immersive tours taking place on selected dates at the Tower of ...