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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 [...]
Today, the author Harriet Castor gave a talk to students from two Kingston schools, Tiffin boys school and Tolworth girls school. Harriet was talking about her fantastic new book VIII where she gets inside the mind of Henry VIII. The students, all of whom had read the book, were very excited to meet the author [...]
I’ve come to the end of the SOCL trainee scheme and my time with the Education team at the Tower of London! It has been a privilege to work with a department so passionate about bringing the stories of the palaces to a range of education users. I look forward to hearing how Education at [...]
Hampton Infant School and Nursery was buzzing last Tuesday during their assembly when they received a very special surprise visitor from Yeoman Warder Steve McMenamy. As part of ‘men in school week’, people were invited into primary schools to give a small presentation about their jobs. Steve spoke to the children, teachers and parents about [...]
Kensington Palace re-opened this week after a £12m development project. We have an exciting new schools programme, including new sessions for KS1-2 students. Bring your class to explore all the curious tales of this really royal palace. We’re delighted to announce that admission is FREE for under 16s! Victorian history sessions Queen Victoria was born [...]
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 .
Following the success of Take One Building in 2010-11, we are delighted to announce that we have now launched our 2011-12 project. In October last year, over 60 primary school teachers came to the Tower to find out more about this very exciting learning opportunity, and we are now working with 20 schools from across [...]
We have a new online game for children! Mr Nice is the King’s official chocolate maker. Every morning, he brings frothy hot chocolate to King William III but today, Mr Nice has left the royal frothing spoon behind. Your mission, as a player, is to sneak through some of the rooms at Hampton Court Palace [...]
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 [...]