Archive for February, 2012
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Historic Royal Palaces works with the Prince’s Drawing School to run a branch of the organisation’s Young Artists Programme, and on Saturday the group visited the Banqueting House at Whitehall for the very first time. There, in a session led by the Drawing School’s tutors, the group made sketches (above) of the building’s groundbreaking architecture [...]
Last week saw the first International Challenging History conference held at City University and the Tower of London when 140 academics, museum professionsals and educators from as far away as Brazil, North America and Europe gathered together to discuss and share their experiences of delivering difficult and sensitive histories to a variety of audiences. The [...]
Avid blog readers will know that at Kensington we are busily making 500 unique, handmade bunting flags for our ‘Jubilee - a view from the crowd’ exhibition, opening in May. So far we have enlisted the help of carers and youth panel members to help us reach our target, and today it was the turn of [...]
Like our colleagues at Hampton Court Palace, we were very busy during half term last week with a fantastic range of family learning activities in the Medieval Palace. Visitors enjoyed a range of medieval-themed fun all week and over the week we had an astounding 2,600 children making hats, helmets, badges, and stained-glass windows, as [...]
Half term is in full swing at Hampton Court Palace. As it has just been Valentine’s day, we are exploring the story of Margaret Douglas and her 3 boyfriends. Margaret was Henry VIII’s niece, and he didn’t always agree with her choice of suitor. Come along and make a mood mask (showing a happy face and [...]
A Prime Minister, a Turkish servant, a doctor, a mistress and a man of mystery – these are the characters featured on new prtinted and embroidered cushions being made for the King’s Gallery at Kensington Palace by community groups. Robert Walpole, Mohammed, Dr. Arbuthnot, Henrietta Howard and John Byrom all attended the courts of the [...]
Today a group of carers came to Hampton Court, but their focus was not on the famous Tudor apartments (although they enjoyed looking at them!), but rather the 17th century Baroque apartments built for William III and Mary II. The group heard about the lives of William and Mary, in particular the Glorious Revolution and [...]
… that Princess Elizabeth became Queen and we’ve just had a gun salute at the Tower to commemorate that historic occasion. The BBC have put up an interesting story here with some fantastic old footage and photographs of how the news was greeted back in the day and it’s well worth a look .
What was it really like to be a queen? What was the reaction to a female monarch? How has monarchy changed? What private events shaped the lives of these women? The Historical Association and Historic Royal Palaces have joined forces to offer a fantastic CPD opportunity in line with the Queen’s diamond jubilee. Two CPD [...]
Three weeks ago a group from Age Concern/Sixty Plus in Kensington & Chelsea started working on a community project in the new Clore Learning Centre at Kensington Palace. The were designing decorations for plates for the new summer exhibition at the palace: ‘Jubilee – a view from the crowd’, all about Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee [...]