Archive for December, 2011
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Christmas got off to its traditional start with our annual carol singing around the courtyards at Hampton Court Palace. The weather nearly defeated us again – we had some rain this year rather than snow like in the previous two years – but the hardy carol singers turned out in force to Hark! the herald-angels [...]
…for a seminar at the end of November about access to museums for Deaf people. Sue (hearing), John (Deaf), Lynne and Vikki (British Sign Language interpreters) represented HRP at the first of three seminars on this topic. The trip was part of a Grundtvig-funded project that Historic Royal Palaces is working on with partners from Lille [...]
Last Saturday was a day of celebration at the Tower. In the past weeks school children from local primary schools worked hard, helping the ‘Bookkeeper’ by writing stories. Now it was time to free the ‘Bookkeeper’ from his prison in the Tower and for them to become Palace Explorers. Many of the Palace Explorers, their friends [...]
About 140 people attended our fifth annual Community Carol Service at the Tower of London on the evening of the 15th of December. It was a chance for representatives of some of the community groups we’ve worked with across the palaces to come together in the historic Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula in the [...]
On 24th May 1819 a young princess was born at Kensington Palace. Her name was Victoria and she was to become one of Britain’s best known monarchs. I’m currently delivering a Victorian outreach session called ‘Introducing Princess Victoria’ to local primary schools in RBKC, Brent, Hammersmith and Fulham, Camden and Westminster. These sessions are being delivered offsite while the palace [...]
Hannah Schmidt, Paloma Wooden and Vlad Marshall, the three year 10 students from Hinchley Wood School who took part in ‘Takeover Day 2011′ from a previous blog, recently sent back their experiences of their day with the Visitor Services team on November 11. Hannah said: ‘As I went through the palace and talked to a [...]
Love, duty, power, transformation, secrets and magic. As part of the Creative Quarter event with Exhibition Road Cultural Group, students from Northbrook College (Sussex) and St Marylebone C.E. School (Westminster) came to Kensington Palace and created short films, taking a theme from the exhibition as their inspiration. Returning for a sixth year, this free event for 13-19 [...]