Tudor Revels Events Programme

Tudor Revels Southampton

Events programme August to November

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WELCOME TO THE TUDOR REVELS The Tudor Revels is a major programme to raise the profile of the heritage, archives and history of Southampton in the Tudor Period [1485-1603].

All the Tudor monarchs visited Southampton which was, as today, an important port, a thriving trading town and at the heart of many of the pivotal events that took place in England in this turbulent and defining period of history.

The Tudor Revellers are all drawn from heritage, community and educational organisations that all have a love of history. The project is open to anyone who shares these aims, and dozens of volunteers have helped to put together the Revels programme. To find out more and to get involved visit our website at www.tudorrevels.co.uk or send us a message on facebook.com/tudorrevlessouthampton

Tudor Revels Events The majority of events are FREE thanks to the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the contributions made by our friends and partners.

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The Old Bowling Green Open Day 11am-1pm FREE

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By God’s House Tower, Lower Canal Walk, Southampton

“More Received of the Bowlers the 22 October in godes howse greene ijs” 1585-86

In the sixteenth century bowling was considered an unlawful game leading to gambling, idleness and the neglect of archery and led to fines like the one above. Southampton boasts the oldest bowling green in the world dating from 1299 and it has a long, rich history and a remarkable archive. Today the Knights of the Green will welcome you to visit the green and clubhouse and find more about the history of bowls in the town. In 1588 Francis Drake was playing bowls when the Armada was spotted sailing up the Channel, in Southampton, that same year, John Gregorie and John Exton (who both served as town mayors) were fined 10s when their game ended in fisticuffs! Teas & Coffees available

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The Fair Josian Banner Making workshop With the artist Alys Scott-Hawkins 10am-4pm FREE

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The Bargate Monument Gallery, High Street, Southampton

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Come along to this family workshop for children and adults exploring the myths of Bevis & Ascupart and responding to the Tudor paintings in the gallery to create a banner of Josian. Working as a group led by the artist Alys Scott-Hawkins we will use paint and collage to make a large banner to be carried in the St Michaels Church Michaelmas procession on the morning of 30th September.

Please bring your own lunch and wear appropriate clothing.

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To book your place email archaeoanna@yahoo.co.uk Or ring 0781 285 1095

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Making Ends Meet -Tudor style 10am-4pm FREE

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The Hawthorns Centre, The Common, Southampton

Drop in workshop and display of pole lathe turning and woodcarving. See how skilful you might be if you were living in sixteenth century Southampton and had to furnish a house. event

The People of Tudor House Guided walk, With the Friends of Southampton Old Cemetery, 2pm FREE

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departs from the cemetery gates, Cemetery Road, The Common, Southampton

There have been many people associated with Tudor House who have found their last resting place at the old cemetery. Learn more about their stories and how Tudor House was rescued from demolition to become an award winning museum.

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Pilgrimage Procession St Marys to Our Lady of Grace Causeway, 3.30pm FREE

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Meet at St Marys Church, St Mary Road, Southampton

Follow in the footsteps of King Henry VIII who, on his first visit to Southampton some five hundred years ago, made a pilgrimage to visit the town hermit William Jeffery in his hermitage at the Chapel of Our Lady of Grace. All welcome, tea and coffee provided. event

Historic Churches Banner Making workshop, With the artist Alys Scott-Hawkins, 10am-4pm FREE

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St Joseph’s Church Hall, Bugle Street, Southampton

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Before the Reformation banner processions were a common event in the lives of the people of Southampton. Come along and join artist Alys Scott-Hawkings and make banners for the Michaelmas Fair procession. A family workshop for children and adults using paint and collage to create banners to represent each of the old town parish churches. Please bring your own lunch and wear suitable clothing

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To book your place email archaeoanna@yahoo.co.uk Or ring 0781 285 1095

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The Priory Church Guided Walk, With the Hamble Valley & Eastleigh Heritage Guides, 7pm FREE

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Walk around St Andrews Church, Hamble-le-Rice

The priory church, known for oysters and beer brewing, used to support Winchester College. For hundreds of years the monks served the churches of Hound and Bursledon. Find out what happened to them in the company of our guide.

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Making Ends Meet – Tudor Style. Tudor Costume Workshop. 1pm - 4pm, FREE

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The Parklife Community Room in St James’s park, Shirley

Set your fingers to work adapting your old shirts, skirts and/or trousers into Tudor style garments for the Tudor Revels Michaelmas Fair. Experienced help on hand for those tricky ruffs and stomachers!

Some materials will be available.

Places limited. To book contact Mary South call 023 80617182; email mary.south@btinternet.com

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“Pastimes & Good Company” with the Mary Rose Trust, 7pm FREE

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The Local History Forum, Northgild Lecture Theate, Civic Centre, Southampton

Explore Tudor games and pastimes with an illustrated talk and replica artefact handling session based on the archaeological evidence from King Henry VIII’s warship Mary Rose. Find out about Southampton’s links with the Mary Rose and the fantastic new Mary Rose Museum being built in Portsmouth. event

Drakes Progress, The Musical Encounters of an English Adventurer, Concert with early music group Sirinu, 8pm

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Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, Salibury Rd, Southampton

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Sir Francis Drake, explorer, pirate and national hero, completed his famous voyage around the world in 1581. This musical interlude contrasts Elizabethan musical life with the different sounds of the countries Drake explored, with music from the recruiting party, the officer’s cabin, encounters in Africa, around the Horn and The Armada making a musical odyssey of Drake’s adventures.

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Box Office 023 80595151 TICKET PRICES £16 adults, £15 concessions, £8 students

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Family History Event: Tudor Genealogy Evening 7pm FREE

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At the Local Studies and Maritime Library on the lower ground floor of the Central Library.

An evening with staff from the Central Library and the City Archive Service looking at available Tudor sources that can be used for tracing family history. event

‘Mary Boleyn, the great and infamous whore’ A talk with historian and novelist Alison Weir, 7.30pm

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Northguild Lecture Theatre, Civic Centre, Southampton

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Alison Weir is the top selling female historian in the country. Alison will tell the story of Mary Boleyn, her contribution to Tudor History, whilst exploring the myths, rumours and scandal that became her life.

Was she one of the most misunderstood figures of the Tudor Age? Includes Question and Answer session & book signing.

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Tickets £4, from Visitor Information, Central Library, Civic Centre, Southampton. Telephone: 023 8083 3333

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Netley Abbey Guided Walk, With the Hamble Valley & Eastleigh Heritage Guides, 2pm FREE

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Netley Abbey, Abbey Road, Netley, Nr Southampton

To hear this Reformation tale of ghostly monks, buried treasure and the new Elizabethans why not join our guide for a walk around the atmospheric ruins.

Novelist Alison Weir

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“The Trinity, The Angel & The Elizabeth”; Speaker Dr Cheryl Butler, Southampton’s Past Times: SeaCity Lectures, 7.30pm

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Westgate Hall, Westgate Street, Southampton SO14 3AY

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As part of the SeaCity lecture programme we are delighted to put the spotlight on three Southampton ships that could be said to have changed the course of history in the sixteenth century.

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Tickets £4.50 (£3.50 FOSMAG, SCMAS, Arts & Heritage volunteers) To Book call 023 8083 4536

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Court and Port: Life in Tudor London and Southampton, University of Southampton Study Day, 10am-4pm

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Avenue Campus, University of Southampton

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This study day will present five papers presenting new research on the Tudors. The papers in the morning will focus on high politics at court and in the capital while the papers in the afternoon will consider life in Southampton.

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To book online visit Southampton University Lifelong Learning webpages. Tel 023 8059 4514

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Shakespeare’s Henry V, 7pm

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The Point, Leigh Rd, Eastleigh

Join us for Propeller Theatre’s pocket Henry V a thrilling route march through the greatest of all war plays.

Why not join us at 6pm for a FREE Pre show talk, which includes a glass of wine.

Shakespeare, Travelling Players & the historic Henry.

“The King is set from London, and the scene is now transported, gentles, to Southampton”.

How well did Shakespeare know Southampton?

What happened when the great acting companies ventured into the provinces? And what was The Southampton Plot? contact

Box Office 023 8065 2333 tickets £12/£10/ £8

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St Nicolas Church Guided Walk, With the Hamble Valley & Eastleigh Heritage Guides, 2pm FREE

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St Nicolas church, North Stoneham

Italian sailors, floating Flemings & Father Christmas are all part of St Nicolas’s Tudor story, not to mention the parishioners buried under the floor for the price of a cow. Join our guide to have a peek around this gem of a church set in beautiful parkland. event

Southampton Film Week 27th Oct - 4th Nov

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Date & Venue of premiere to be announced.

Film Week will host the premiere of Bitterne Park School students film Tudor Kicks. Commissioned as part of the Tudor Revels the film mixes history, heritage and rapping to create an innovative short film to engage even the most dis-interested viewer in finding out more about Tudor Southampton. www.southamptonfilmweek.com

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‘The Terrible Tudors’ Halloween Ghost Walks, With the Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre Company, 7pm & 9pm each evening

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Departs from Holy Rood Church

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details For this years ghostly romp through Southampton’s seamier history we are digging into the cesspit of Southampton’s Tudor history. Beheadings, plagues, plots, torture, massacre, rats and running sewage....an everyday tale of Tudor life.

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All tickets £5 available from the Visitor Information Centre, Central Library, Civic Centre, Southampton, Tel: 023 8083 3333 or from our booking secretary on 023 8086 2882

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History in Literature English in the Afternoon with Lynn Forest-Hill, Thursday Afternoons 1.30-3.30pm FREE

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Central Library, Southampton

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A six week programme, starting on January 10th, introducing some of the most influential works of English Literature including Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo and in weeks 5 & 6 Bevis of Hampton .

Led by author and Fellow of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture at the University of Southampton, Dr Lynn Forest-Hill.

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For further details contact Dr Lynn Forest-Hill on 023 8068 5228 or email lynnevda@clara.co.uk

The events listed below are all happening on day! Take your pick SEPT this and come along or book your place.

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Tudor Song Singing Workshop with Keith Davis & Cantores Michaelis, FREE

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St Joseph’s Church, Bugle Street, Southampton

details: The morning sessions will include solo sessions, duet sessions and choral sectional rehearsals with everyone coming together for a full choir rehearsal before lunch break. After lunch break the format will repeat finishing with a final rehearsal.

Keith Davis is Head of Vocal Studies at the University of Southampton. Previously he has worked at the Royal College of Music as Professor of Singing and has worked with the London Actors Centre and Westminster Cathedral.

Keith will be supported by choral singers from Cantores Michaelis who specialise in unaccompanied repertoire composed for the Christian Liturgy.

When booking please specify if you would like to perform a solo or be part of a choir singing Tudor motets. State whether you are a soprano, alto, tenor or bass. Workshop attendees will get the chance to perform in the evening of the 29th September as part of the Tudor Mass and the concert of Tudor music at St. Michael’s Church. contact us book a place

The People Project Venue: The Duke of Wellington, Bugle Street.

Drop in session to find out more about the huge project to capture and map the stories of all the inhabitants of Southampton between the years 1485-1603.

Come and find out how the database works and see how you can be involved.

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Lute Workshop, with David Miller, FREE

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Tudor House Museum

details: During the Renaissance the lute was known as the ‘Queen of instruments’. David Miller is a long established soloist and well known accompanist enjoying collaborations with James Bowman, Emma Kirkby and Elizabeth Wallfisch among many others. He is professor of lute at the Guildhall School and Trinity Laban.

The workshop will be in two parts 11am-1pm you will learn and practice unaccompanied lute music and in the afternoon session, 2pm4pm, there will be the opportunity to work on accompanied songs, which you can sing yourself or work with invited singers.

To take part in the workshop you will need some experience of playing lute music and guitars may be brought along to the workshop if you do not have a lute. Participants are also welcome to present lute songs. All participants should bring a music stand. There will be an opportunity to perform during the evening concert at St Michael’s Church. [see details below.] Minimum recommended age for the workshop is twelve, children should be accompanied by an adult or give relevant permissions. Parents must be easily contactable during the day. contact us book a place

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Mass with Tudor Music, FREE

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St Michael’s Church, Bugle Street, Southampton

details: With traditional Tudor music from Keith Davis and Cantores Michaelis the mass will give a real sense of how it would have felt to attend a pre-Reformation church service.

With traditional Tudor music from Keith Davis and Cantores Michaelis, this mass will give a real sense of how it would have felt to attend a pre-Reformation church service. With Gregorian chants and music from the greatest of the sixteenth century composers, William Byrd, Richard Dearing, Palestrina and Thomas Tallis a feast of the most uplifting music of the age. The service lasts one hour.

The Concert that follows starts at 7pm.

BOOKING INFORMATION: Certain events need to be booked, where you see this sign please contact by email archaeoanna@yahoo.co.uk or ring 0781 285 1095

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“Hands on Tudor games and pastimes” An all day drop in workshop with the Mary Rose Trust, FREE

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58 French Street, Southampton Medieval Merchants House

details: Join education staff from The Mary Rose Trust who will be bringing along historically accurate replica artefacts, games and costumes for a handling session that will throw a light on life in Tudor England.

Entry to 58 French Street is FREE on this day so visitors will also be to explore the house and discover how late medieval/early Tudor buildings were furnished.

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Concert of Tudor Music with Cantores Michaelis, Led by Keith Davis and with guest lutenist David Miller FREE

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St Michael’s Church, St Michael’s Square, Bugle Street, Southampton

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details: The Reformation led to a great flowering of secular music and drama and this concert will celebrate the history of Tudor Southampton through music. As a port with many visitors from around the world the people of the town were exposed to music from across Europe. The concert includes music from Orlando Gibbons, William Byrd, Thomas Tallis as well as Italian masters Giovanni Anerio, Luca Marenzio and Giovanni Croce. The performance will be interspersed with music for the Lute performed by David Hill.

Singers and musicians from the singing and lute workshops held earlier in the day will also form part of the performance.

The events listed below are all happening on this day! Take your pick and come along or book your place.

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The Feast of St Michael the Archangel FREE

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Patronal service St Michaels Church

details: The traditional service dedicated to St Michael the Archangel.

The church was founded in 1070 just four years after the Norman Conquest and the church was dedicated to the patron saint of Normandy. The service will include a dramatic interlude on the founding of the Church and a traditional procession such as would have taken place in the sixteenth century.

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The Procession of St Ledger FREE

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Starts at St Michael’s Square

details: At this time of year in Tudor Southampton it was traditional that a procession with colourful banners went around the churches of the town. Led by participants of the banner workshops we will be recreating the procession around the sites of the five churches in the old town starting and finishing at St Michael’s. On your walk learn what happened to St John’s, Holy Rood, St Lawrence & All Saints.

The walks will take around 45 minutes

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Dramatic Interlude The Second, With the Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre Company, 2.30pm FREE

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St Michaels Church

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details: Having told the story of the founding of St Michael’s as part of the patronal service, the Fanclubbers will take the story on with an interlude featuring the story of Henry VIII’s divorce lawyer and former resident of Tudor House, Sir Richard Lyster. The interlude lasts around 20 minutes

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Dramatic Interlude the Third, With the Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre Company, FREE

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St Michaels Church

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details: Queen Elizabeth is expected and she is not amused. The last of the Tudors visited Southampton on several occasions being entertained by bagpipes, bearbaiting and a bag of gold. What entertainment will be conjured up by the Fanclubbers in the final act of their dramatic interludes. The interlude lasts around 20 minutes

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Workshops in Tudor Dances, With Renaissance Footnotes FREE

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In the Jane Austen Suite, Dolphin Hotel, High Street, Southampton

details: In Tudor times the Dolphin was a bustling inn, entertaining visiting nobility and being a performance venue for travelling acting companies. Queen Elizabeth loved to dance and the ability to dance was the mark of a true gentleman. Join us and learn some of the popular dances of the day Workshop One 11-1pm | Workshop Two 2-4pm contact us book a place

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The Tudor Revels, With Renaissance Footnotes Dancers & Musicians, FREE

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In the Jane Austen Suite, Dolphin Hotel, High Street, Southampton

details: In the Jane Austen Suite, Dolphin Hotel, High Street, Southampton Join us for an evening of music and dance as the Michaelmas Fair draws to a close, if you have attended the dance workshops it will be a chance to practice what you have learnt! But don’t worry for those who want to sit and watch there will be display dances as well as opportunities to join in. contact us book a place

BOOKING INFORMATION: Certain events need to be booked, where you see this sign please contact by email archaeoanna@yahoo.co.uk or ring 0781 285 1095

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Events for the Michaelmas Fair are taking place over both days.

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Events listed here are taking place over both days.

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Tudor House Museum & Gardens 10am – 5pm FREE

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Tudor House Museum

Over the Michaelmas Fair weekend the award winning museum and gardens will be open for FREE As well as enjoying the beautifully restored house and its authentic gardens of herbs and historic plants, the house will be bought to life with displays of living history, talks, workshops and performances. Tudor House will also be an information point for the weekend activities. All Activities in the house and garden are FREE over the weekend event

Tudor House, Georgian Room Programme

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Tudor House Museum

The Queen in Context: Ann Undressed with Elizabethe Lynch, of Wimbledon College of Art and intern at The Tudor Tailor (Research and Construction) Nottingham.

This interactive presentation will introduce participants to Tudor Dress & the style of clothing that would have been worn by Queen Anne Boleyn on a visit to Southampton during her marriage to King Henry VIII. There is a legend that Anne Boleyn stayed at Tudor House during her relationship with the much married Henry. The lecture will examine the style of dress she would have worn from underdress to outerwear.

Times 11am & 2pm, lecture lasts for 50 mins event

Sir Richard Lyster, the King’s Lawyer with Cheryl Butler

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Tudor House, Georgian Room Programme

Sir Richard Lyster was one of the most important former residents of Tudor House, Lord Chief Justice of England; he attended Queen Anne Boleyn’s coronation and the trial of Sir Thomas More.

The talk will encompass a visit to St Michael’s to see Sir Richard’s last resting place.

Time 12pm lecture lasts 30 mins.

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The Italians in Southampton with Geoff Watts

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Tudor House, Georgian Room Programme

In the first half of the sixteenth century Southampton was one of the wealthiest towns in England. It owed its wealth and importance to the fact that the great trading cities of Italy chose the port as their entry point to the country. Many colourful Italian merchants made Southampton their home including Cristofor Ambruogi - later to become Christopher Ambrose, mayor of Southampton. After the talk why not visit the remains of Ambrose’s house West Hall at the bottom of Bugle Street? Time 1pm lecture lasts 30 mins event

In Sickness & In Health with Mary South

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Tudor House, Georgian Room Programme

Sickness and death were much closer in the sixteenth century: plague, influenza and sweating sickness. The use of herbs and natural remedies were one defence and houses such as Tudor House would have gardens that provided not only herbs to enhance cooking but were also a practical medicine chest for the inhabitants.

The talk will encompass a visit to Tudor House garden.

Time 3pm, lasts approx 30 mins. event

Tudor House – The Lower Georgian Room

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Tudor House Museum

All day family drop in session when there will a chance to dress in period costume, make traditional herb bags or construct a mini model of Tudor House event

Guided Walks of Tudor House 11am & 3pm

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Tudor House Museum

Why not enhance your tour around the house by going in the company of our experienced guide. Find out more about the fascinating stories the building has to tell, and visit areas not usually open to the public. Tours last approx 1 hour. Spaces are limited so to reserve a place phone 023 8083 4242. event

Storytelling with the new town minstrel and his apprentice 12 noon & 2.30pm

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King John’s Palace, Tudor House Garden

Our minstrels have taken the story of Bevis, Ascupart & Josian, the legendary founders of Southampton, as the basis for their performance; with flying horses, magic swords and thirty foot giants life was busy for Sir Bevis and his long suffering wife Josian.

The storytelling session is suitable for both children and adults and lasts around 45mins. event

Shakespeare & Southampton Guided Walk led by Jangles the Jester 12noon & 2pm

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Departing from outside Tudor House

Jangles the Jester taught that Will Shakespeare all he knows! See where the Earl of Southampton spent his time when he was in town, find out quite a lot about Queen Elizabeth I. All the gossip about the players, the plague, and jolly japing in Old Southampton in a fun walk with Jangles the jester. Walk lasts approx one hour.

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Tour and explore

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St Michael’s Church

St Michael’s Church is central to the Michaelmas Fair events as this weekend is one of the most important dates in the Church’s calendar: Michaelmas is the feast day of St Michael the Archangel.

Information Stand

The information stand will be staffed by Revels volunteers who will not only provide information on the weekend events but will also be able to tell your more about Southampton’s heritage and what is available. This is the place to pick up free leaflets, visit the bookstall and find the new self guided tour of Tudor Southampton leaflet which will be launched this weekend.

The Tudor Southampton self guided tour

Takes you on a trip around the Old Town to find out about life in the sixteenth century. For this weekend there will also be heritage interpreters at hand at different points around the route to give added colour to your explorations.

Explore St Michael’s

St Michael’s is a heritage venue dating back nearly a thousand years. The Friends of St Michael’s volunteers will also be on hand to show you round the church and enthral you with its thousand year history. You will also be able to see some of St Michael’s historic records on loan from the archives

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LIVING Tudor Market

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St Michaels Square

St Michael’s Square

The square outside of St Michaels will be alive with colour, stalls, stands, displays and entertainment. At the heart will be the market stalls lovingly recreated from original Tudor designs by the Green Light workshop. These stalls will provide the backdrop for a host of living history displays.

During your visit you will meet “townsfolk”, interpreters dressed in period costume. Little Woodham’s living history interpreters involve you and your children in their daily lives. Prepare timber with the sawyers at their camp, or speak with townspeople as they make lace, or card and spin wool, watch the Blacksmith as he beats hot iron into shape.

In the centre of the square there will be impromptu displays of dance, muster drills, mummers, and minstrelsy law & order will be kept by the Town Crier & Beadle of the Beggars. Southampton’s current town crier John Melody will be donning the robes of his predecessor Thomas Blackrow.

Bitterne Park School Tudor Sweetmeats

The travel and tourism students of Bitterne Park School sixth form have been working on a number of projects to help engage children and young people in the history of Southampton. They are also getting into the spirit of the weekend by having their own Tudor market stall. Come and meet them and find out more about their projects.

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REFRESHMENTS Teas & Coffees St Michael’s Church

The Friends of St Michael’s will be running a tea and coffee stall on the 29th/30th event to keep up your strength as you enjoy a weekend of Revels.

Tudor House Cafe, Tudor House

The enhancements to Tudor House museum include a lovely new cafe with views across the Tudor herb garden, open for light meals, snacks and drinks throughout the weekend.

The Duke of Wellington historic hostelry, Bugle Street

The Duke of Wellington was known as the Beer House in Tudor times as beer was both brewed and sold on the site by one Rowland Johnson. There will be even more available this weekend as our current hosts will be recreating a Tudor menu for you to enjoy.

The Titanic Pub, Upper Bugle Street

This pub’s Victorian frontage hides a much longer history. This part of town was where all the wealthy Italian merchants lived.

The pub overlooks a garden which was once the site of the home of Roger Machado who was a herald in the court of King Henry VII.

The Dolphin Inn, High Street, Southampton

The Georgian bow windows and links with Jane Austen, hide the inn’s Tudor past. In the sixteenth century it was the largest inn in the town and Edward Wilmot would welcome guests from home and abroad to spend the night in one of his many rooms all individually named, such as the Dragon chamber, the Kendalman and the Lion.

Public Carparks There are excellent bus services into the town centre and if you travel in by train there is a free bus service and you alight at The Dolphin Hotel. Public Car parks (rates correct at time of going to press).

All are within easy walking distance, the closest listed first.

The Quays Longstay 10 hours £8 | Gloucester Square, High Street, £8 for up to 10 hours | Eastgate, Longstay upto 10 hours £8 Bargate Centre, The Strand, off Palmerston Road, All Day rate £6.50.

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