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Last night team members of the White Tower Conservation Project, HRP’s three year project to clean and conserve the Norman keep at the Tower of London, attended the prestigious Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Awards at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. These awards are designed to celebrate the highest standards of excellence in the built [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
… 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 .
HRP Education have been working in partnership with the Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts on DesignQuest, an exciting and innovative project sponsored by the Burberry Foundation which was aimed at encouraging young people to learn about costume and design, as well as to have a go at creating their own sartorial masterpieces. The [...]
Since 2009 the Tower Education Service has been working with the MLA, IWM and City University on a project called Challenging History. This innovative project is designed to help heritage professionals, practitioners and academics work together in order to explore and interrogate issues raised in work with difficult, contested and sensitive heritages in a range [...]
To co-incide with the Tower’s new exhibition on the history of the Royal Menagerie, Royal Beasts, the Tower Education Service has produced a new trail to help families learn more about the exotic assortment of animals that lived (and often, sadly, died) at the Tower. Written in house with contributions from Education, Interpretation and Curatorial teams, [...]
This one isn’t an HRP production but it’s certainly one of interest to fans of ravens and their association with the Tower. “Infectious Theatre invite you to this scratch performance of its exciting new project, Raven Boy. We will be asking for feedback following the showing. Raven Boy tells the story of young Bran, orphaned [...]
Over half term (May 28th – June 5th) we’ve got at an exciting array of family activities to celebrate the opening of the Royal Beasts exhibition which explores the history of the menagerie that existed at the Tower for some 600 years. As well as the exhibition itself (which has been designed specifically for families) and [...]
I’m pleased to announce that HRP Education Service will be taking part in a very forward thinking project called Strengthening our Common Life (SOCL), devised and managed by London-based arts and heritage charity, Cultural Co-operation. This project provides 12 paid bursaries in one of ten heritage organisations allowing trainees the opportunity to develop a rich variety of [...]