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We are delighted to announce that we have just finished recording a brand new podcast series, based on the stories of the ten people who are commemorated on the Tower of London’s execution site memorial. The stories were researched by members of the Tower Education Service, and written and performed by actress and storyteller Claire [...]
Did you know that the French have no historical tradition of pies, puddings or cakes? Unlike us sugar and stodge-happy Brits, our Gallic neighbours had nothing of the sort – and only recently began selling those yummy foods, with the none too imaginative names ‘le pie’, ‘le pudding’ and ‘le cake’. Zut alors! Well that [...]
Thanks to everyone who came to the Artist Residency celebration last night at Kensington! It was such a lovely evening and great to see so many people there. It was the perfect way to end a fantastic residency and also to thank Natalie Ryde for all her hard work over the last year. For more [...]
Sorry about the pun but wanted to share some of the outcomes of the cake decoration course on Saturday! Here’s one cake that a particpant iced and decorated. Everyone came up with some amazing designs. See some more here! For more information about Queen Victoria’s wedding cake of 1840 go to the Royal Collection wesbite [...]
Did you know that Queen Victoria’s wedding cake was 3 metres in circumference and weighed more than 140 kg! Taking this as inspiration, we ran our first creative workshop today as part of our spring adult learning programme at Kensington Palace. Cake artist, Rachel Mount, led participants through the skills and techniques required for master cake decorating. Each person [...]
On the back of Hampton Court’s latest exhibition ‘The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned’, we’ve been looking at the many mistresses of Charles II, the ‘merry monarch’ himself, who had a succession of lovely ladies from Nell Gwyn to Barbara Villiers (pictured above, looking fierce) . How were they able to gain such prominent positions [...]
From wild and wonderful wallpaper, cabinets of curiosities and beautiful wood carvings, Kensington has everything to peak your curiosity and ignite your imagination. We’re looking for artists to create some craft/ making activities for our visitors at Kensington Palace to support our public programme of events. Kensington Palace has recently re-launched after a £12m transformation [...]
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 [...]
… 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 .