Snow in Summer is one of our favourite dishes.
A baked #gingerbread base of almonds, sugar and breadcrumbs, with sweet creamy 'snow' on top.
See this and much more at our #Tudor Midsummer event
www.kentwell.co.uk/midsummer
#nationalgingerbreadday #kentwell #kentwell1536 #tudors #reenactment
#lisleletters #otd 1536
John Husee writes to Lord Lisle:
I have bought for my lady xiiij yards of Lucca velvet. I trust there be no better.
#onthisday #materialculture #velvet #tudor #tudors #earlymodern #kentwell1536
#lisleletters #otd 1536
John Russell writes to Lord Lisle:
The King hath come out of hell into heaven, for the gentleness in this, and the cursedness and the unhappiness in the other.
#anneboleyn #janeseymour #henryviii #earlymodern #tudor #tudors #kentwell1536 @kentwellhall.bsky.social #onthisday
#lisleletters #otd 1536
Madame de Riou writes to Lady Lisle:
I ensure you the gentlewoman your daughter is in good health. I have received the angelot that you sent me, which I spent for her, ensuring you that there is nothing I have which shall not be at your commandment and hers.
#kentwell1536
#lisleletters #otd #1536
John Husee writes to Lord Lisle:
The wine and quails are come, which I shall see delivered as I shall think for the most advantage. I think there is enough to please Mr Russell and Mr Heneage both.
#kentwell1536 #earlymodern #tudor #tudors
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#lisleletters #otd 1536
John Husee writes to Lord Lisle:
News here are none, but that it is presumed that there shall be by midsummer a new coronation: this by conjecture, and not unlikely.
#onthisday #kentwell1536 #janeseymour #tudor #tudors #earlymodern
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#lisleletters #otd 1536
John Russell writes to Lord Lisle:
the King thanks you heartily for the peasen ye sent to him, not only for the neweltye but also for your good remembrance.
#onthisday #tudor #earlymodern #peas #henryviii #tudors #historicalfood #kentwell1536
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#lisleletters #otd 1536
Anthony Pickering writes to Lord Lisle:
this present day the Queen was put to death within the Tower in the presence of a thousand people.
#anneboleyn #tudor #tudors #kentwell1536 #onthisday
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#lisleletters #otd 1536
John Husee writes to Lord Lisle:
Anne the late Queen suffered with sword this day, within the Tower, upon a new scaffold; and died boldly.
#anneboleyn #tudor #tudors #kentwell1536 #onthisday
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And a straw hat maker at one of our Tudor events
#nationalstrawhatday #strawhat #strawhatday #heritagecrafts #tudor #tudors #kentwell #kentwell1536
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15 May is #NationalStrawHatDay, so here are some of our wonderful #Tudors wearing straw hats
#kentwell1536
#tudor
#earlymusic
#strawhatday
#strawhat
#lisleletters #otd 1536
John Husee writes to Lord Lisle:
Here are so many tales I cannot tell which to write; for now this day some saith young Weston shall ‘scape; and some saith there shall none die but the Queen and her brother
#kentwell1536 #tudor #tudors #anneboleyn
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#lisleletters #otd 1536
John Husee writes to Lord Lisle:
This day Mr Norrys, Wester, Bryerton, and Markes hath been arraigned, and are judged to be drawn, hanged and quartered. I pray God have mercy on them.
#kentwell1536
#anneboleyn
#tudor #tudors
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#lisleletters #otd 1536
Sir John Russell writes to Lord Lisle:
And the Queen shall go to her judgement on Monday next.
#kentwell1536 #tudor #tudors #anneboleyn #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory
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I may be mildly addicted to searching for early C16th Scolar Press facsimiles.
Fortunately, my bank account doesn't allow me to just buy all the facsimiles regardless of date.
#kentwell1536 #bookbinding #tudor
#Lisleletters #otd 1536
8 April 1536
Thomas Warley writes to Lady Lisle:
the Dewke of Suffolk did bring in a brace of white #greyhounds, and gave them to the King;
#tudor #tudors #kentwell1536
These look marvellous; with #Kentwell1536 #Easter coming up I think I need to have a word with our #Tudor cooks.
(On Easter itself of course we can have actual eggs, but the days leading up to it are still in Lent….)
#foodhistory #medieval #16thc #livinghistory
And they’re done!
He just has to make the sheaths now. We think he’s done an amazing job - what do you think?
#ironworkthursday #metalwork #craftsky #cutlery #knives #tudor #earlymodern #kentwell1536
Absolutely. #Kentwell1536 is the same price for visitors from the New World, the Holy Roman Empire, Muscovy, the city states of Italy…. Even Wales.
A girl in a green Tudor dress with a white linen cap is cooking over a charcoal hob in front of an open window with diamond panes.
#WindowsonWednesday comes from the Tudor Great Kitchen today.
Just over a fortnight till our first #history event of the year, #Kentwell1536 Eastertide.
There will also be an #egghunt, games & a children’s I-spy trail.
www.kentwell.co.uk/easter
#easter #easterholidays #heritage #suffolk #daysout
Thank you, that’s so nice to hear! I hope you make it to one of our reenactment events soon- multiperiod for an unexpected, quirky but still very well researched journey through history, or #kentwell1536 for the full #Tudor time travel experience. (Or come to both 😉)
A workbench with two half made knives. The handles are not complete but you can see the metal inner handle which extends from the blade and will be covered with a wooden or bone outer.
Sometimes when we recruit new #Tudors for our events they come to us with few skills but keen to learn. Sometimes they are already experts….
Here are some knives an incredible new member of the team is grinding prior to heat treating 😍
#ironworkthursday #cutlery #metalwork #craftsky #kentwell1536
#Lisleletters #otd 1536
John Husee writes to Lord Lisle:
I have spoken for your lordship’s hosen and under-hosen, which shall be sent as soon as they be made.
#kentwell1536 #tudor #tudors #materialculture #earlymodern #stockings #hose @kentwellhall.bsky.social #onthisday #earlymodernsky
We can help. We will get all our Tudors to say to every visitor that comes in to #Kentwell1536 this year, ‘I hear the Mary Rose is being rebuilt after sailing for 25 years since her launch in 1511. Bet she will never sink.’
They will like that. Everyone loves dramatic irony.
Swirly capitals in black ink on modern lined paper
A facsimile 16th c letter next to a page of similar writing on modern A4 paper
A new letter in 16th c hand on new old fashioned paper signed George Clopton
Practice makes perfect!
In preparation for #Kentwell1536 one of our #Tudors has been working on his ‘English secretarie’ hand from Augustino de Siena’s 1560 book.
Goal is to be as neat as Cranmer (or Cranmer’s clerk.)
#medievalmonday #mondaymotivation #earlymodern #16thc #penmanship #palaeography
#Lisleletters
Mary Basset writes to her mother Lady Lisle sending gifts #otd in 1536:
I send you a little needlecase to put your needles in, and a gospel to carry with your paternoster.
#materialculture #tudor #tudors #kentwell1536 #onthisday #womeninhistory
Lisle Letters, #otd 1536
Thomas Warley writes to Lady Lisle about a kirtle "of cloth of gold paned", a gift for her from Queen Anne.
#tudor #tudors #kentwell1536 #tudortuesday #anneboleyn #historicaldress #materialculture #lisleletters
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Lisle Letters, #otd 1536 - Mary Basset is learning the spinet:
The spinet-player who taught me at Guechart Madame de Bours hath contented for that which he hath done; and she hath taken another in this town.
#earlymusic #tudor #tudors #kentwell1536 #onthisday #womeninmusic @kentwellhall.bsky.social
