Only two years after the royal supremacy was written into law, and only months after Henry VIII’s first reforms of religious worship, a series of rebellions threatened to halt the English Reformation in its tracks. These rebellions started in October 1536 in the small market town of Louth in the Lincolnshire Wolds and quickly spread … Read more
On Sunday 4 June 2017, Royal Holloway opened its magnificent North Quad to the public for the first Festival of History. The festival was organised by the team at Citizens 800, a heritage lottery funded project with schools, museums and other organisations to chart the history of the relationship between the citizen and the British … Read more
Four months ago I started as a Project Officer on Royal Holloway’s Heritage Lottery Funded project, Citizens: 800 Years in the Making. At the risk of sounding cliché, time flies when you’re having fun. As I sit and write this, I am left rather bewildered at how these months have flown by. It has felt … Read more
