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May 2024

Issue 12


Articles include

  • These Walls Can Talk:
    Tudor Wall Paintings

  • In the Footsteps of the Pilgrimage of Grace

  • Cambridge:
    A Tudor Treasure House

  • The Lost Otford Palace

  • The Tomb of William Parker:
    Last Abbot of Gloucester

Overview

We learn of the work of the Young Archaeologists Club in Southwell, whose members have examined and recorded the stunning Elizabethan wall paintings in the local Saracen's Head Hotel.

We speak to Julian Bell, Curator at the Weald & Downland Living Museum, about his role and responsibilities for the fifty-three buildings that have been recreated at this wonderful open-air museum, the highlight of which is Bayleaf Farmstead, a Wealden open hall house that has been recreated as it may have been in 1540.

Sarah Morris, the Tudor Travel Guide, takes us on a tour through the Tudor Cotswolds, featuring castles, cathedrals, abbeys and courtier houses, and Brigitte Webster is looking forward to signs of spring at Old Hall, after a long, wet and grey winter.

In Last Place, Sharon Bennett Connolly shares her favourite Tudor places.

All this, plus news, books and more......

Contributors: Sally Annesley, Julian Bell, Sharon Bennett Connolly, Kirsten Claiden-Yardley, Julian Humphrys, Sarah Morris, Elizabeth Norton, Andy Weaver, Brigitte Webster, Emma J. Wells