Monthly Archives: August 2012
My best bits of seventeenth-century Britain, from The Guardian
From The Guardian’s Travel section, 18th August, 2012. My best bits of historic Britain: historians’ top tips. From a tomb 5,000 years old to a club famous 50 years ago, the UK is so rich in sites it’s hard to know where to start. Here historians and authors pick their favourites. Lucy Worsley on the
Continue ReadingIn which I catch a robber, and get tourists to sit on him
You may have heard that my BBC history colleague Dan Snow sits on his own robbers. I prefer to delegate it to other people. I’ve been in Oxford this last weekend, which prompts me to recount one of my favourite anecdotes. It’s very well worn, and I hope it’s not become too exaggerated through repetition.
Continue ReadingHistoric Royal Palaces curators – a year in pictures
Last week I once again had to present our annual curators’ review to the trustees of Historic Royal Palaces, to update them on what we’ve been doing for the last year. Here are some of my favourite pictures of my colleagues from the report.
Continue Reading‘All The Bells’, including this one from 1727
All the bells were ringing last week for the start of the Olympic Games, and this unusual bell from our collection joined in with a tinkle of its own. At the coronation of George II in 1727, a group of barons representing the Cinque Ports (Hastings, Hythe, New Romney, Sandwich and Dover) had the privilege
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