Research reveals Westminster’s Tudor horse cemetery as likely a resting place for imported elite animals
Three decades ago, an exceptional animal burial ground was unearthed in Westminster, London, serving as the final resting place for exotic horses during the medieval and Tudor eras...
I’ve been given the Janet Arnold Award by the Society of Antiquaries to recreate clothing described in the Tudor song, Greensleeves.
Really excited to be working on this project with a team of superb costume historians.
Among other things, there will be a video to come in the future, and a book about Greensleeves & early modern clothing in music and song, but in the meantime, here is our recording of the words and music… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pej-PqWDJ4U&ab_channel=Passamezzo
2 Apr 1502: d. Arthur #Tudor Prince of #Wales, age 15 #otd at Ludlow. Brother Henry (VIII) succeeded to both throne & Arthur’s widow but there were many consequences...
In October 2006, test pits ahead of proposed tree planting in Forty Hall revealed this splendid specimen of #Tudor masonry. Time restraints prevented further investigation, but we'll be back in May to finally give it the attention it deserves! #Archaeology#ElsyngPalace
In Tudor and Stuart times, gifts were given at New Year rather than at Christmas.
Here is a musical New Year's Gift. It's an anonymous 17th Century dance of that name from Thomas Middleton's Inner Temple Masque, or Masque of Heroes, 1619.
From BL Add. 10444
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: violin
A Tudor Christmas Carol
As I outrode this enderes night.
From the Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, one of the Coventry Mystery Plays.
[The better known 'Coventry Carol', "lully lulla, thou little tiny child" comes from the same source.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39AA6kFmpWY&ab_channel=Passamezzo
The embargo has been lifted and the news is out! Philippa Langley and her team of researchers have found credible evidence that the Princes in The Tower outlived Richard III and each made their own play for the English crown. A documentary by UK's Ch 4 will air on Saturday 18 Nov about this discovery and can be seen in other countries in the next days and weeks. See https://richardiii.net/faqs/the-princes-in-the-tower/ for more details #Medieval#Tudor#WarsoftheRoses
Back in June I gave Bing Image Creator the following prompt:
"Imagine a brick-built tudor house, not unlike Hampton Court or Tattershall Castle, with trimmings in carved sandstone, on mechanical legs striding out of the ocean onto a sandy beach amid a thunderstorm, with lightning striking the nearby cliffs"
The images were interesting but a little unsatisfactory. Now they have upgraded to DALLe3 I gave that the same prompt.
Just for those interested, Suzannah Lipscomb (@sixteenthCgirl), renowned #Tudor#historian (you have probably seen her BBC series "Hidden Killers in the Tudor Home", it's on YouTube), is hosting an online course soon.
The #Hapsburgs chin is a result of #genetic flaws by inbreeding. The attached image shows just how 'close' they were when it comes to marrying. It created a broken gene pool. Uncle <-> Niece or 1st Cousins!
If you've 40 mins, this podcast takes a bit of brain work, but it's fun & interesting.
With its haunting melody, and the romantic myth that it was written by #HenryVIII as a love song for #AnneBoleyn, Greensleeves has remained popular over the centuries and today, is probably the best known of all #Tudor#songs.
However there is no proven connection to Henry VIII, and the earliest mention of the broadside ballad called #Greensleeves was not until September 1580, (some 33 years after his death). It was an immediate hit, and a number of imitations and parodies were produced in the following months and years.
Our recording uses the text from 'A Handful of Pleasant Delights', 1584 - the earliest surviving source. There are many verses, some of which contain lovely descriptions of #Elizabethan clothing and other aspects of #MaterialCulture
Sept 1529: Eustache Chapuys arrives in #London as Imperial ambassador #otd Without his letters we’d know far less, & we’d have less #Tudor court gossip
Two anonymous 17th Century ballads describing the purported evil deeds of Richard III, the murder of the Princes in the Tower, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, which was fought #onthisday in 1485.
A good example of Tudor propaganda.
A song of the Life and Death of King Richard the Third (to the tune of Who list to lead a soldier's life)
and
The most cruel murther of Edward the fifth, and his brother Duke of York, in the Tower; by their Uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester (to the tune of Fortune my foe)
From Richard Johnson's ballad miscellany, The Golden Garland of Princely Delights, 1620