Issue 22

In Issue 22 of Tudor Places, we explore the streets and spaces of Elizabethan York, the world inhabited by Margaret Clitherow who grew up in a city shaped by the religious upheavals of the English Reformation and eventually became one of its most venerated martyrs. We trace the long history of St Augustine’s Abbey in Canterbury, an important monastic centre on the London to Dover route that Henry VIII retained for his own use after the Dissolution of the Monasteries and we learn about Durham House, one of the great houses built along the Strand in London for bishops and courtiers that was also briefly in royal ownership. We consider Anne Boleyn’s material culture, the objects she owned, the spaces she shaped and the emblems and architectural language she used, to understand more about how Anne sought to portray herself. We have interviews James Nason who, with his wife Rowena Colthurst, owns Pitchford Hall in Shropshire, about the rescue and restoration of this Grade-I listed half-timbered house, and with Dawn Lacey about her role as a National Trust Living History Interpreter at Little Moreton Hall, another wonderful half-timbered house in Cheshire. With Sarah, The Tudor Travel Guide, we follow Mary, Queen of Scots through the long years she spent in England, from Workington Hall to her execution at Fotheringhay Castle. In Living at Old Hall, Brigitte Webster reflects on how the Tudor house has shaped her future, while in Last Place, Dr Christina J. Faraday shares her favourite Tudor places.