THIS has my full attention… fascinating.

Most enjoyable day at the weekend analysing and debating the churches of Barnham Broom, Barford and Wramplingham with Norfolk Archaeological & Historical Research Group

Posting expired credit cards into the depths of no return between the floorboards of our early 1500s home brings back fond memories from my childhood. That joy and feeling of immense satisfaction when pushing a coin through the slot of my piggy bank. Priceless.

We're delighted to share that King's Lynn's 14th century Red Register has been added to UNESCO's UK Memory of the World register. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The last of this year’s Yellow Flag. Insert: Detail from The Virgin and Child with St. Anna by Michael Wolgemut, before 1510. Germanic National Museum.

Houston, we seem to have a problem. Blocked gutter/hopper. Again. At the highest, inaccessible point. Of course. Yet another scaffolding job. Sigh.

Had the pleasure of admiring these rare classically inspired #murals at Hill Hall near Epping last week. Rebuilt by Sir Thomas Smith between 1567-8 and 1572-3 the house also features some of the earliest, surviving classical decoration in form of columns and friezes on the courtyard elevations.

I had the pleasure of chatting about all things Tudor food, gardens & the up and downs of living and looking after a small Tudor home with many needs. If you would like to hear what I had to say, follow the link.https://substack.com/@amymcelroy/note/c-271554768?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=fc9vi

Sleeping in the spare bedroom tonight because this morning I woke up with the fattest, scariest looking arachnid sitting on my chest eyeing me up. The sort of stuff that gives you nightmares. So I’m camping out here until I have had time to find the culprit of my emergency relocation. 🕷️🕷️🕷️

Our seminar on Monday 8 June will be a double feature: Jane Upperton (Granada): ‘Rodrigo Lopez's 1571 imprisonment in the Tower’ AND Jonathan Baddley (Cambridge): ‘The English Reformation in perspective: knowledge examinations before communion, c. 1536-1640’ 5.30pm, hybrid, all welcome!

✨ Out today! ✨ Happy publication day to #AGoldenWorld @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

#EatingWithTheTudors is selling like hot cakes in beautiful Suffolk! Amazing audience, sold all my books. Thank you good people of Bury St Edmunds, you are amazing!

Getting ready for tonight’s talk in beautiful Bury St Edmunds. Let’s eat with the Tudors!

This #volunteersweek the Hall Marks project would like to say THANK YOU to everyone helping us achieve our ambition of digitally transcribing over half a million entries from Norfolk’s tithe apportionments. The transcriptions will be a significant resource for anyone researching history in Norfolk.

Your chance to spend a day (3rd May 2027) at my Tudor home & experience an #authentic #Tudor #feast! All dishes are prepared to authentic Tudor recipes & are from a surviving menu for a feast laid on for Anne & Henry in July 1533. Hot stuff! ❤️‍🔥 😉👌😊🔥 www.instagram.com/p/DZIYlbhNcHt/

Two #medieval #East #Anglian church #bench #ends which have seen some rough times and much neglect. Having been through many wars they still stand their ground with pride. Can anyone suggest what these, now sadly mutilated, beasts once depicted? Are there any intact examples still around?

Tudor history enthusiasts are sniffing out the good stuff... 😋https://substack.com/@rebecca192630/note/c-268314503?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=fc9vi

Captured a dendrophile in a hug at the #ancient #oak on campus @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social 🌳

I’m on mission to determine which colour variants of #flowers were known in #Tudor England. The right inset shows the white iris in Hugo van der Goes Portinari Altarpiece (1475). The left insert depicts John Gerard's entry for the 'White Floure de-luce' in his Herball. (1597) Got a match?

Poppy’s opium dream … or was it Opium Poppy’s dream… 😉

Rose Alba, the Yorkist’s rose greeting visitors to the Tudor home.

My forthcoming talk on #Dietary #changes in #Tudor #England might be of interest. Next Thursday in Bury St Edmunds. Please feel free to share.

Tudor recipes for #Elderflower syrup (cordial) do not contain lemon but ginger. Nice twist. Try it.

Summer vibes - feeling spoilt.

I am a Substack neophyte and kicking-starting this new experience with a live chat as a guest of the awesome Amy McElroy substack.com/@amymcelroy/...

Three years after publication I can finally offer #book #plates. I’m enthralled by my husband’s design which is inspired by late medieval book of hours.

#Tudor #treats - homemade by myself to original C16 recipes available this Saturday. 👌 goat-shed.co.uk/event/indepe...

In Tudor England the purple Bearded Iris was commonly known as ‘Floure de-luce of Florence’. Insert: J. Le Moyne (late C16)

This evening’s garden appreciation corner. G&T or Pimms anyone?

I’m not the only one haring about the (Tudor) mount in sheer excitement.

So good to see my late father-in-law’s charity supporting local (Hertfordshire) Tudor history projects! I can wholeheartedly recommend this unique museum. Please do visit if you can. I promise you, you will not be disappointed! Elizabeth I depicted as king Solomon & my Tudor jams await you!

‘Get a pound of grated creamy cheese and four ounces of breadcrumb that has soaked in goat’s milk, mix those together with ten well beaten eggs, two ounces of sugar, ten ounces of flour, a little fine flour and a little elderflower that has soaked in milk. Then make fritters as large …

#ElderflowerFritters season is back and Renaissance Italy was the place to enjoy the best! This recipe also features in #eatingwiththetudors

My Elizabeth II rose coming into her own

Beesy weekend

All brilliantly mapped out at today’s Hall Marks workshop @norfolkro.bsky.social. Another most engaging and informative session! 👌

Best decision. Never too late.

Who would have thought that violets could reproduce the colour of my kitchen walls? Cool. #EarlyModern

Thought provoking lecture at Earlham Hall @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueahistory.bsky.social Organised by CEAS as part of their seminar series.

A #palimpsest in a wider sense, this wall bracket started life as an early C16 linenfold wall panel. Possibly the conversion work of a C19 'artisan'.

It took a year for my 'conserue of violets' from its raw state (top right insert) to its final, scrumptious completion. Without any doubt, worth the wait. There is simply nothing that compares to this 100% unique taste. #Violets melting on your tongue. 💜💜

Cultivation of alternative (non native) crops in Tudor England: #Woad. By 1597, John Gerard was no fan as he records: ‘It serveth well to dye and colour cloth, profitable to some few; and hurtful to many’.

I captured the gentle evening light on centuries of paint. Illuminating layers of history.

Man about my kitchen

It’s that time of year again. Daily Duckling Watch is back on.

Engaging and most captivating session on the lost country houses of Norfolk with Dr Sarah Spooner from @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social at @norfolkro.bsky.social this morning

Our home was built in the early sixteenth century but the areas of real concern are always Victorian and later ‘improvements’ as seen in this C19 chimney.

I can proudly announce that I have chosen the wonderful Much Hadham Forge #Museum (Hertfordshire) for my very exclusive range of homemade #Tudor #Jams. All are professionally researched, made to original C16 recipes & prepared with homegrown fruit so that you get to taste our Tudor past 😋

Home brew taster session 2. #EarlyModern recipe #Strawberry 🍓 #wine 🍷. Again no vintage year as I really had no expectations of actually succeeding in this project but once again I am blown away: mellow fresh strawberries on a (not so) warm evening 👌