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Journey Through Tudor England Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London to Stratford-Upon-Avon and Thornbury Castle

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ISBN-10: 1605984604

ISBN-13: 9781605984605

Edition: 2013

Authors: Suzannah Lipscomb

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For the armchair traveler or for those looking to take a trip back to the colorful time of Henry VIII and Thomas Moore,A Journey Through Tudor England takes you to the palaces,castles, theatres and abbeys to uncover the stories behind this famed era. Suzannah Lipscomb visits over fifty Tudor places, from the famous palace at Hampton Court, where dangerous court intrigue was rife, to less well-known houses such as Anne Boleyn’s childhood home at Hever Castle, or Tutbury Castle, where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned.In the corridors of power and the courtyards of country houses, we meet the passionate but tragic Katheryn Parr, Henry VIII’s last wife; Lady Jane Grey, the nine-day queen; and…    
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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: 6/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Dr Suzannah Lipscomb is an historian, broadcaster and award-winning academic. She holds a BA (Hons) First in History and M.St. in Historical Research from Lincoln College, Oxford, and a D.Phil. in History from Balliol College, Oxford. Following posts as Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace, and Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia, she is now Convenor for History and Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at New College of the Humanities, London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Suzannah has presented historical documentaries on BBC4, ITV, Channel 5 and National Geographic Channel, and writes a regular column for History Today. Her other…    

Introduction
London and Greater London
The Tower of London
National Portrait Gallery
Tudor Portraiture
Westminster Abbey
Charterhouse
Lincoln's Inn
Guildhall
Eltham Palace
Richmond Palace, Surrey
Hampton Court Palace, Surrey
An Heir and a Spare
South East
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Berkshire
The Mary Rose, Hampshire
Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
The Vyne, Hampshire
Royal Processes
Hever Castle, Kent
Leeds Castle, Kent
Food in Tudor England
Penshurst Place, Kent
The Early Tudor Great Hall
Rochester Castle, Kent (with Allington Castle)
Christ Church College, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Loseley Park, Surrey
Arundel Castle, West Sussex
South West
Pendennis and St Mawes Castles, Cornwall
Buckland Abbey, Devon
The Spanish Armada
Sherborne Castle, Dorset (with Sandford Orcas Manor House)
Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire
Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire
Thornbury Castle, Gloucestershire
Clothing in Tudor England
Glastonbury Tor and Abbey, Somerset
Montacute House, Somerset
West Midlands
Ludlow Castle, Shropshire (with Castle Lodge)
Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire
Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire
Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Elizabethan Theatre
Harvington Hall, Worcestershire
East Midlands
Bosworth Battlefield, Leicestershire
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
Social Climbing the Tudor Way
Burghley House, Lincolnshire
Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire (with Holdenby House)
The Elizabethan Prodigy Houses
East of England
St John's and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Peterborough Cathedral, Cambridgeshire
Hatfield Old Palace, Hertfordshire
Tudor Sports and Pastimes
Kett's Oak, Wymondham, Norfolk
The Shrine at Walsingham, Norfolk
St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The Church of St Michael, Framlingham, Suffolk (with Framlingham Castle)
North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber
Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire
Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire
The Typical Tudor House
The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Merseyside
Pontefract Castle, West Yorkshire
Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire (with Whitby Abbey)
Acknowledgements
Further Reading
Appendix: Opening Times and How to Get There
Index