Tudor Places

02/09/2026

👑 Katherine Parr Week at Sudeley Castle 👑

This week, from Tuesday 1st - Sunday 6th September, we will be celebrating the incredible woman who spent the final chapter of her extraordinary life here.

Across the week visitors can experience:

✨Katherine Parr Trail
✨Visit Katherine's tomb
✨View Katherine's original love letter and prayer book, and handle replica texts
✨Living History talks with Mike Bottomley (Tuesday to Friday, 12pm and 2pm)
✨Immersive costumed storytellers (Saturday and Sunday)
✨See Katherine's hair and tooth in our Exhibition Rooms, as well as replica gowns for each of Henry VIII's wives, as seen in the film Firebrand.

And in honour of Sudeley’s queen, anyone named Katherine, in any spelling, can visit free throughout the week. Simply bring valid ID to the Visitor Centre, no pre-booking required.

Send this post to the Katherine in your life 👀

📅 1st - 6th September
🎟️ BOOK YOUR TICKETS TO VISIT NOW ➡️ https://sudeleycastle.co.uk/events/queen-katherine-parr-a-royal-legacy

25/08/2026

The beautiful bombée glass in Haddon's Long Gallery windows continues to delight throughout the summer. There’s something wonderfully otherworldly about bombée glass — its gentle curves catching and bending the light, turning every view beyond into something softer, stranger and more beautiful.
A little piece of historic craftsmanship, still shimmering today.

23/08/2026

In Issue 24, Sarah, the Tudor Travel Guide, takes us on a tour of the Tudor north-east, discovering the magnificent cathedrals, formidable castles and imposing fortresses of the powerful Prince-Bishops of Durham and the Neville and Percy families. These magnates, who ruled the region and defended the Ango-Scottish border on behalf of the Crown, also, at times rose against it, most notably in the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, and the Rising of the Northern Earls in 1569.

Find out more in Issue 24: https://bit.ly/4bO2CMc / link in bio
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1. Exterior of Durham Cathedral © The Tudor Travel Guide
2. Interior of Durham Cathedral © The Tudor Travel Guide
3. Long Gallery, Durham Castle © The Tudor Travel Guide
4. Aerial view of Auckland Palace © The Auckland Project
5. St Peter’s Chapel, Auckland Palace © The Tudor Travel Guide
6. Gatehouse, Raby Castle © The Tudor Travel Guide
7. The Barons Hall, Raby Castle © The Tudor Travel Guide
8. Alnwick Castle © The Tudor Travel Guide
9. Elizabethan fortifications, Berwick-upon-Tweed © The Tudor Travel Guide

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23/08/2026

22/08/2026

, 22 August 1485, the Battle of Bosworth, the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, took place. The effective end of the battle when the reigning king, Richard III, was killed, was a defining moment in English history, marking the end of three hundred years of Plantagenet rule and, some argue, the end of the medieval period.

The Yorkist establishment which had dominated England for more than a decade after Edward IV’s victories over the Lancastrians and the Nevilles in 1471 rapidly fragmented after his death in 1483. When Richard III became king after having the late monarch’s sons declared illegitimate, the exiled Henry Tudor took the opportunity to present himself as an alternative candidate for the throne. Henry was able to gain support not only from Lancastrian diehards like the Earl of Oxford but also from many former supporters of Edward IV who had been alienated, not only by what they saw as Richard’s usurpation, but also by the favour he then gave to a narrow clique of mainly northern supporters.

On 22 August 1485 the two armies clashed a few miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire. Exactly where would be the subject of debate for many years. In Issue 08, in “The Battle of Bosworth: Birthplace of the Tudor Dynasty”, Julian Humphrys discusses the battle that saw the death of the last Plantagenet king and the establishment of the Tudor dynasty.

https://bit.ly/4ipA2ER / Link in bio.

22/08/2026

22/08/2026

The Norfolk Cloister is one of the most surprising and atmospheric spaces at the Charterhouse.

Technically a garden gallery, it was built in 1571 by the Duke of Norfolk during his ownership of the estate, known then as Howard House. Incorporating the remains of the medieval cloister as the left wall, he added a beautiful vaulted brick walkway to create an elegant, covered promenade through his gardens leading to a tennis court he had built at the far end.

The schoolboys who later used the cloister for playing football left their mark in the form of graffiti on the wooden door at the far end.

The space continues to reveal its layered history in unexpected ways. One of our residents shared with us that if you walk down the cloister at night, you might just cross paths with two ghostly monks - one tall and thin, the other shorter and more stocky...

Photo ©️ Nick Guttridge

22/08/2026