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 20, 2013
Tragedy in Thetford
One of the things I have enjoyed about working on this project is the unexpected way it connects with other […]
Category: History
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
July 18, 2013
BETA app testing
After a lot of hard work we have a working project app! It is in BETA phase as there is […]
Category: General
June 27, 2013
Talking pictures
One of the features we are trying to produce for our exhibition in Thetford is a talking portrait of the […]
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
April 23, 2013
Significant insignia
Looking at the calendar reminds me of the reason why I first came to look at the Framlingham tombs, and […]
Category: General
March 8, 2013
What about the women?
International Women’s Day has been marked on my social networks by, amongst other things, posts about strong-willed women from history. […]
Category: History
Tagged: Agnes Howard, domestic disputes, Elizabeth Howard, International Women's Day, Katherine Howard, treason
February 6, 2013
Richard III and the Howards
The past month has been one of deadlines and, as a result, I have been in a bubble oblivious to […]
Category: History
Tagged: Battle of Bosworth, John Howard, Richard III
January 24, 2013
You never know what you will find here…
As mentioned in a previous post, an historian can travel far and wide looking for material pertinent to their research. […]
Category: General
January 8, 2013
Heritage Artefacts Down Under & On A Bus Route
In December I was fortunate enough to be in Australia for a couple of weeks and I was struck by […]
Category: Design Theme, General
Tagged: australia, heritage, local, location
December 14, 2012
Bones and Stones. St Catharine’s College, Cambridge 3D Scanning and Digitisation Conference
This was a wonderfully interesting and intellectually stimulating conference. The budgetary assistance allocated by Ross Parry’s team was augmented by […]
Category: General
December 5, 2012
What is behind the website’s new look? Version 2
I joined the RR project in April as a part time research associate and it has been extremely busy ever […]
Category: Design Theme
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 27, 2012
Who am I? & What do I do?
Dear followers & all future followers, I thought it was past time that I wrote a blog to introduce myself […]
Category: Design Theme
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
A brilliant conference
A couple of weeks ago Nishad and I presented a paper (and a poster) on Thetford and the 3-D scanning […]
Category: Archaeology
November 21, 2012
Monumental Quirks 2 – Lowick
Before I get onto quirks, I want to address the fact that St Peter’s Church, Lowick is one of the […]
Category: General
Charles Alfred Stothard d. 1821
Charles Alfred Stothard d. 1821: the greatest ever draughtsman of monumental sculpture? Charles Alfred Stothard died, ironically enough, when he […]
Category: General
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
October 29, 2012
Ghostly remains: the Howard Chapel at Lambeth
While tracking the remains of the Howard tombs, one sometimes encounters nothing more than just a hint of the […]
Category: General, History
Tagged: brass, Howard, lambeth, tomb
September 13, 2012
Monumental Quirks – Healaugh
This is going to be the first in a series of posts looking at my favourite hidden gems and quirks […]
Category: History
Tagged: church, effigies, Healaugh, Lord Wharton, tomb, tombs
September 6, 2012
Church buildings as shared spaces
Recently I was in Warwick town and popped into St Mary’s church to have a look at the tombs of […]
Category: Design Theme
Tagged: audience, earl of warwick, st mary's church, warwick
August 29, 2012
The Dissolution at Thetford
Spurred on by deadlines for talks, I put away my 3-D virtual models (temporarily) in favour of some serious research […]
Category: Archaeology
Tagged: archaeology, Blackfriars, history, Holy Sepulchre, Howard, Nunnery, Thetford
August 2, 2012
So what do you do?
“So what exactly do you do?” It is a question that I have become accustomed to over the last two […]
Category: History
Tagged: research, student life
July 18, 2012
Serendipity and speculation
Sources that shed light on the commissioning of works of art in sixteenth-century England are tantalisingly rare. So I was […]
Category: History
Tagged: Cardinal Wolsey, Howard family, tombs
May 22, 2012
And here’s one I made earlier…
Spurred on by Paul Bryan’s demo of 3-D photography, I decided to have a go myself not with a building […]
Category: Archaeology
May 15, 2012
Maximising church visits
As part of my DPhil research I have been visiting churches around England in order to see surviving noble tombs […]
May 12, 2012
From Wales to Dover
People think scholars lead a quite sedentary existence, but research can involve a great deal of travel! The resources from […]
Category: General, History
Tagged: dover; wales, northampton, Trinity Hospital
May 11, 2012
Website Survey
We would like to make the ‘Representing Re-Formation’ project’s website the best that it can be. This survey is designed […]
Category: Campaign, Design Theme
Tagged: design, evaluation, website
March 20, 2012
The Magic Of Scanning
Roll up, roll up and come and see as I lift the heavy veil on the long shrouded world of […]
Category: Science
March 2, 2012
How To Begin?
This is my first post on this (or any blog site for that matter) and so I thought I’d kick-off […]
Category: Science
3-D Photography
At the recent project meeting, Paul Bryan, one of our project partners from English Heritage showed us a number of […]
Category: Archaeology
February 9, 2012
February 2012 Video Update
Here is a quick video update based on our last board meeting together.
Category: General
January 29, 2012
Visit to Sheffield Cathedral
I spend a lot of time reading books. Or in an archive looking at documents. Or at home looking at […]
January 17, 2012
Social display and political power in Tudor England
One of the aims of the history group is to think about what impact the Howard tombs and other symbols […]
Category: History
Tagged: hospitality, house, political power, social display, social status, tomb
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 13, 2012
Social and Distributed Requirements Engineering
Traditional requirements engineering (RE) approaches employ standard techniques such as questionnaire, interviews and observations. They involve interactions between RE professionals […]
Category: Design Theme
January 12, 2012
Learning to research “out loud”
All the team on ‘Representing Re-Formation’ are aware of the opportunity a rich website like this presents, particularly its potential […]
Category: Design Theme
Tagged: academia, disclosure, open source, peer review, research practice
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 22, 2011
Tea and Chat at Trinity Hospital
Following on my last post, many thanks are also due to the residents of Trinity Hospital, with whom I enjoyed […]
Category: History
Tagged: discussion, justice, statue, statues; northampton tomb; trinity hospital, 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
Photos from the 1930s and 50s – can you help?
Clearance excavations of Thetford Priory took place in the 1930s and 1950s, with a break for the Second World War. […]
Category: Archaeology, Campaign
Tagged: 1930s, 1950s, finds, photos, plasterwork
November 30, 2011
November video introduction to our website
Here is a quick introduction to our website. We aim to add regular video updates on our progress – both […]
November 22, 2011
A vault full of sand!
Jackie Hall fails to get into the empty vault in the middle of the presbytery at Thetford Priory
Category: Archaeology
Tagged: 1930s, 2nd Howard duke, priory, Thetford, vault
