Gibbons travels to Fairfax House – Part 1
“The Genius of Grinling Gibbons from Journeyman to King’s Carver” How do you put on a...
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Object of the month: maiolica
The Collections Management team at Historic Royal Palaces runs an ‘object of the month’ competition to...
Object of the month: silk satin waistcoat
Historic Royal Palaces’ Collections Management team regularly holds an ‘Object of the Month’ competition to share...
Cataloguing samples – An Intern’s View
How do you catalogue architectural samples and object fragments? That was the question, or rather...
Revealing our tapestry’s true colours
The back of a tapestry can help us unpick the history of its creation and repair...
Tudor Tapestries Environmental Research
Welcome to this, the first in a series of blog posts where we will be sharing...
Radio 2 launch of 500 words 2017
Alarm set for 4.30am…that can mean only one thing; a trip down to BBC Radio 2...
Throne Canopy – Happy New Year!
Happy New Year and welcome back! For our first post of 2017 we would like to take...
Throne Canopy – Going Up!
We recently moved out of the conservation studio and into the (rather chilly) Queen’s Guard Chamber...
Throne Canopy – Come and see for yourself
The main conservation treatment of the cloth of state from the throne canopy has now been completed...