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Defaced 8 Jan 2010 | 06:37 am
Face to face with the past at the Guild Chapel This post features the Guild Chapel in Stratford, one of many fine old buildings in the town. It is situated next door to Shakespeare’s last house ‘New ...
Stratford 31 Dec 2009 | 10:19 pm
The Garrick ( Jeff Land on Flickr : Click image) It was the day after Boxing Day, the sales were on and Town centres were stuffed with shoppers. Desperate to get out and about whilst avoiding the cro...
Happy Christmas from Tudor Stuff 19 Dec 2009 | 07:34 am
Bridleway in Snow Revisited : Roantrum on Flickr (Click image) Just a quick post to say Happy Christmas to everyone who has ever looked at Tudor Stuff. This blog is now very nearly one year old, fro...
Nicholas Owen – Master hidebuilder 14 Dec 2009 | 10:02 am
Nicholas Owen at work (adapted from an original drawing by Ian Fletcher) This blog has covered various aspects of Catholic persecution during the Elizabethan and early Stuart period. Many of the char...
Packwood House 7 Dec 2009 | 08:45 am
Packwood House The English Midlands is blessed with a very rich selection of Tudor period houses, indeed, these have been the inspiration for many of the posts on Tudor stuff. I have been meaning fo...
Prince Arthur 30 Nov 2009 | 01:49 am
Although history has much to say about king Henry VIII there was relatively little interest in him as a child. Although Henry was one of six other children, only four lived to adulthood, Henry himself...
Meet the Cleves : Anna and her sisters? 20 Nov 2009 | 11:08 am
Whilst doing a bit of research for another post I found out a little more about Anne of Cleves. Anne is well known to us because of the famous Holbein portrait, she is also remembered because of Henry...
Chimneys and fires 11 Nov 2009 | 12:28 am
the merchants house (Circa 1558) Avoncroft nr Bromsgrove: Photo by Ruth 1066 on Flickr : click image The black and white appearance of housing has become very closely associated with the Tudor period...
The death of Queen Elizabeth I 3 Nov 2009 | 08:51 pm
In the spring of 1603, Elizabeth had been Queen for 44 years, and it was clear she would die without an heir. Robert Devereux (1566-1601) had been executed on Tower Green on 25th February 1601, and...
Autumn 27 Oct 2009 | 06:23 am
Autumn pathway by littlespelk on Flickr - (Click image) As I have been driving around the last few weeks I have noticed how fantastic the autumn colours are this year. I was trying to think of a rea...
