May 8, 2013
Have you seen…?
The most intriguing piece of iconography I have encountered in my study of the Surrey tomb is the coronet [...]
Category: Art History, General, History
December 1, 2012
The Grand Etang
Immediately to the north-west of Boughton House are the remains of the Grand Etang, one of the earliest surviving features [...]
Category: Art History, General
November 29, 2012
So, Cincinnati. Where pigs can fly…
Last month Kirsten, Phillip and I went to Cincinnati, OH, USA to attend the Sixteenth Century Society Conference. The flight [...]
Category: Art History
November 26, 2012
Formal and Informal Landscapes
The formal gardens at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, some of the most important ever designed in this country, were commissioned by [...]
Category: Art History
November 19, 2012
Conferences
It has been an exhausting but fascinating time for Conferences. On 22 October, I was speaking at the DigiDoc Conference [...]
Category: Art History
January 16, 2012
It’s as bad as a soap opera… 500 years ago!
Ok, let’s be honest, most of us have at least peeped at TV series such as the Tudors, the [...]
Category: Art History
January 9, 2012
Visit to British Museum
On 9 December 2011, I was able to visit the British Museum to see the two panels representing a (presumably [...]
Category: Art History
Tagged: Framlingham, Howard, Thetford, tomb
December 11, 2011
The Northampton tomb at Trinity Hospital
In October I visited Trinity Hospital, a lovely almshouse managed by the Mercers’ Company, which provides housing with support for [...]
Category: Art History, General, History
Tagged: effigy, fragment, northampton, tomb, Trinity Hospital
December 6, 2011
Summer travels
With the nights closing in rapidly and the first frosts setting in, it is about time I write a summary [...]
Category: Art History
