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What it’s like to live at Hampton Court Palace
Lucy Denyer from The Sunday Times recently interviewed me about my life when I lived at Hampton Court Palace. Here’s the finished result… ‘When I started my job as chief curator of the Historic Royal Palaces in February 2002, I moved down from Scotland and didn’t have anywhere to live, so for a while I
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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