Archive for October, 2011
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On Saturday 22nd October the calm of Kensington Central Library was disrupted by an infestation of…rats! Don’t panic, these were of the fictional variety, and in any case, there was a large and eager band of ratcatchers on hand to find them. The Outreach & Community Involvement team at Kensington Palace have produced a tactile [...]
Tune into BBC Radio 3 at 8.10pm tomorrow night (Wednesday 26th October) to hear the poignant story of Fernando Buschman, one of the eleven men to have been executed at the Tower of London during World War One. In this twenty minute programme entitled ‘Fiddler in the Tower’, award-winning British violinist Daniel Hope visits the [...]
This Saturday 22nd October our Artist in Residence, Natalie Ryde, ran a drawing activity called ‘A room with a view’ at Kensington for the Big Draw event. Children and their families made their own 3D mirrored room with a view inspired by the magical rooms of the Enchanted Palace. Taking a net of a box they [...]
This Saturday was a day of celebrations as the Palace Explorer trainees and their families gathered at the Tower to free the ‘Bookkeeper’ and finally become Palace Explorers. In the past weeks the children worked hard to find story fragments, facts and ideas to write their stories inspired by the Tower of London and now [...]
On the 20th of October, 28 citizens from four London boroughs all became British citizens in a joint ceremony at Hampton Court Palace. The new citizens came from the boroughs in which Historic Royal Palaces looks after sites: Kensington & Chelsea (Kensington Palace), Richmond upon Thames (Hampton Court Palace and Kew Palace), Tower Hamlets (Tower [...]
Yesterday, in collaboration with The Fusilier Museum London, we ran a pilot session of our exciting new study day, “Perspectives on Empire: India and British rule.” The session is aimed at KS3 students and offers fusiliers and diamonds as well as costumed interpretation and student debate. After a visit to The Fusilier Museum London, based [...]
On Friday evening the Tower hosted the ‘Great London Drawing Lock- In’ in association with London Drawing, a company which works in collaboration with professional artists, tutors and performers to produce unique workshops. Over 50 Adults were given exclusive late night access to the Tower to unleash their inner artist by experiencing drawing in a [...]
Last week saw the start of our ‘Citizenship Month’, with three citizenship ceremonies taking place at the palaces – Kensington on Tuesday, Kew on Thursday and the Tower on Friday. Forty six people took their oaths and made their pledges at the palaces, coming from a wide variety of different countries – from Australia to Afghanistan, Zimbabwe [...]
Hello, here’s an example of one of the charm bracelets we made today on the Enchanted Jewellery workshop. This was part of our Autum Adult Education programme at Kensington. The workshop was led by the fantastic jeweller Amy Keeper and it was a really great day of making and chatting.