December 2, 2013
CATH award
Research which has its origins in the ‘Representing Re-Formation’ project has received another award, from the innovative CATH project run […]
Category: Archaeology, Art History, General, Science
November 25, 2013
Two new Doctoral Training Centres funded by AHRC and EPSRC
Excellent news for the next generation of Heritage Science Researchers! The Midlands is enhancing its status as a centre of […]
Category: Archaeology, Art History, General, History, Science
November 2, 2013
Science and Heritage Conference, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster
The conference on 29-30 October 2013 was everything one could have hoped for, with an excellent and rather lovely guide […]
Category: Archaeology, Art History, Campaign, Design Theme, General, History, Science
October 27, 2013
Science & Heritage: Sustaining the Impact Conference
The Science & Heritage Programme’s final event takes place at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on tuesday 29th and […]
Category: Archaeology, Art History, Campaign, Design Theme, General, History, Science
October 17, 2013
Meet the Tudors!
Category: Archaeology, Art History, Design Theme, General, History
October 13, 2013
Exhibition Opening, The Ancient House Museum, Thetford [to 29 March 2014]
The exhibition, ‘Thetford’s Lost Tudor Sculptures’, on which I worked with Ross Parry of Museums Studies, Oliver Bone, Curator at […]
Category: Art History, Campaign, General
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
