Henry VIII

[vera_j]

Today a new History Today arrived at our library. I discovered a very tempting article/invitation for  a "celebration of 500th anniversary of Henry VIII´s accession to the English throne". Ha! It will be held in Hampton Court. The Palace undertook a lot of changes for the sake of it - opening new rooms, new designs in the garden, lots of items on display, lots of popular or academic seminars, original music AND what I would like to experience very much, a chance for the visitors to wear Tudor gowns and be involved in the imitation of the court life. And the exhibition about Henry´s wives, actors imitating the king and the court etc. I have the magazine open here to use the expressions. All begins in April 10th . 
Oh yes, I would like to take par! I was in Hampton Court in 1996 - -it was my first visit to Britain in my life!
Of course, we went to the Maze there - got inspired by reading Jerome.K.Jerome´s Three Men in the Boat, laughed ourselves silly and promptly got lost -  with my students and my colleagues. Since this trip, my holidays destination was almost only Britain! :-) 

Comments

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Does the article say how long these celebrations go on, I would love to go and take part but I am animal sitting for Easter week, which starts April 12th and the first 2 days are liable to be so crowded you wouldn't be able to move let alone take all the photos I would want. On the bright side there will be an empty house near a railway that would get you to London for the day (probably at an enormous cost) if you could make it over for that week.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

The article says only about the opening of the event on 10th April but number of lectures and exhibitions are to be till October. So I suppose all will be available still in summer. I do hope there will be more news about it. I enclose www.historytoday.com - it is possible you could learn more!
Indeed, my own desire to go is only a desire - I won´t be able to go because I have already arrange another trip but not to Hampton Court...
If you can go, use the chance, mmmm, only that Tudor gown itself is a wonderful idea:-)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I now want to make dolls dressed in Tudor costumes. :^) But am too lazy to be accurate.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I am sure the dolls will be magnificent as soon as you find some time and energy:-)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I have so much fabric (and laces and ribbons and buttons and...) and LOTS of lovely idea books (including a lot of historical costume books- some even with patterns I could resize up a bit from the pages to fit). I just need to be less scatter-brained. :^)

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I might go in order to make a strong protest against the accession of Henry VIII to the English throne...

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I adore 'Three Men in a Boat'. I strongly suspect it will get read yet again when I get to J in cataloguing my books.