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Looking forward to spring and the art of the garden

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

The British love affair with gardening is well-known, and opening on 20 March and running until 11 October is an exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace called Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden. Building on the success of … Continue reading →

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“Go ply thy needle”: embroidery in Tudor England

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

One of the great pleasures of the BBC series Wolf Hall, adapted from Hilary Mantel’s novels, has been to admire the costumes worn by the king and his court, from the scarlet robes of Cardinal Wolsey and the magnificence of … Continue reading →

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“Let me see your archery”: from deadly conflict to courtly leisure

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

More than one scene in the TV series Wolf Hall has shown gentlemen and ladies of the court of Henry VIII practicing archery as a pastime. And in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost the Princess of France and her ladies take aim … Continue reading →

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Michael Wood and “Mary Arden: a Tudor Life”

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

The BBC’s serialisation of Hilary Mantel’s novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies is proving grippingly good. To complement these programmes about “the glittering –though at times terrifying- world of the Tudor court” a new documentary on more ordinary … Continue reading →

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Setting Tudor-fans hearts a-fluttering: Wolf Hall and Shakespeare again

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

On 21 January 2015 the BBC’s 6-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novels about Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, begins. Jane Garvey, in Woman’s Hour, said it had “set Tudor-fans hearts a-fluttering”, and publishers … Continue reading →

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Thomas Cromwell from page to stage: Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

The plays based on Hilary Mantel’s books Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies have been successful both at the box office and in the media. This period of history, Henry VIII’s courtship of Anne Boleyn, divorce from Catherine of … Continue reading →

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Hilary Mantel and Shakespeare: two tales of Henry VIII

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Sylvia Morris

I’ve only just got round to reading Hilary Mantel’s 2009 novel Wolf Hall, the first of a trilogy (the third part still being written) about the life of Thomas Cromwell. Both Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies … Continue reading →

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