Lectures: Thursday 25 November 2010
Meet at: The Brompton Library, 210 Old Brompton Road, London SW5

5.30 pm
Hampton Court and the English Renaissance
Philippa Barton

6.45 pm
Tudor Feasting and Ceremony
Sarah Bowles

Visit: Saturday 27 November 2010
Meet at: Hampton Court Entrance or Waterloo Station if coming by train

9.06 am
Train departs for Hampton Court

10.00 am
Meet at Entrance to Hampton Court Palace

10.15 am
Visit to the Tudor Kitchens with Marc Meltonville, Project Co-Ordinator, Historic Royal Kitchens

The Tudor kitchens at Hampton Court were the largest in Europe. Arranged around three courts, they included the spicery, confectionary, pastry house, dry, wet and flesh larders as well as the great kitchen. Marc Meltonville co-ordinates the research project which has given a fascinating insight into the world ‘below stairs’ where six hundred people lived and worked for the king and has brought them alive with cooking displays. He will describe all the stages of food preparation.

12.45 pm
Lunch

2.15 pm
Visit to the Tudor Palace with Richard Williams, Independent Scholar

Hampton Court, built by Cardinal Wolsey in 1515 and taken over by Henry VIII in 1529, became one of the great Renaissance palaces of Europe. Although the state apartments were lost in the seventeenth century, much survives of the Tudor building, including the magnificent Great Hall with its original Brussels tapestries, the opulent Chapel, the Watching Chamber with its splendid ceiling and the exquisite ‘Wolsey Closet’ and the tennis-play, which was created in 1534.

4.15 pm
Train departs for Waterloo Station