Meet The Ancestors

THE ANCEST T E ME 28th September 2013 ORS

FREE city EVENT

From 11am to 4.30pm At God's House Winkle Street Southampton

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T udor Revels take a bow The Tudor Revels was a two year project supported by a wide range of heritage organisations and individuals and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The aim was to raise the profile of Southampton’s heritage, archives, archaeology and leave a legacy for future historians, the community and the study and appreciation of local history. Today is our final public event where we bring together many of the organisations and volunteers who have given their time, their expertise and their enthusiasm which has led to the success of the Tudor Revels.

This is your chance to meet them and enjoy a day stepping back in time to Tudor Southampton and meet some of the characters who used to live in the town. Our legacy is all the fun and enjoyment that came from our events programme and our achievements include a new book on Tudor Southampton, the new Southampton Tudor Walking Trails, and the People Project database which holds details of 10,000 of Southampton’s Tudor inhabitants.

Open out to view the days events

We chose to have our final event at God’s House tower where a new and exciting project is about to be launched to re-open the tower as a heritage centre, so come and support them and celebrate with us the Tudor Revels.

the little things Transport God’s House is fully accessible by public transport, there is a small public carpark at Gloucester Square at the bottom of the high street and several multi-story carparks within 10 minutes walk.

Food & Drink The Platform Tavern This historic inn will be available for food & drink throughout the day.

Picnic Area – Town Quay Park Bring your own picnic and enjoy the park loving looked after by the Friends of Town Quay Park.

The Wool House In its last outing as a museum and gallery the fifteenth century Wool House is open for tea, coffee and snacks until 4pm. Your last chance to enjoy this iconic building before it is handed over to a commercial developer.

St Michaels Church This weekend is the feast of St Michael the Archangel one of the most important days in the calendar of Tudor Southampton so why not come and celebrate at this special Sunday Morning Service at 10.30am.

St Michaels Church Michaelmas Fair St Michael Square from 11.00am-2.30pm St Michael’s Church invite you to join them for their ‘Fayre on the Square’ on Saturday 28th September.

A variety of stalls will be available including bric-a-crac, plants, books, homemade cakes, a ‘silent auction’ of photographs. Refreshments will be available in the church – teas, coffees, homemade cake. Activities and musical entertainment.

Talks Programme .00 11am

Event is declared open by the Southampton Town Crier John Melody

in his Tudor persona of Thomas Crouche, town crier and master of the beggars in the reign of Henry VIII.

E ducation Room GOD’s HOUSE .30 11am

Dan Crowe: The God’s House Project

aspace arts are now working with a range of partners including the Heritage Lottery Fund and Southampton City Council to explore and plan the future use of God’s House Tower as a mixed use heritage & arts venue. Over the next 12 months our development phase will scope how this can best be achieved and we welcome the view of the local heritage community to assist informing this process.

Dan Crowe is the director of a space arts a charity that supports the development creative industries. They operate studios in Southampton at The Tower adjacent to God’s House Tower, as well as The Arches, and at the Sorting Office in Eastleigh. Dan will be around all day collecting feedback on the proposals. Make sure you complete the questionnaire.

E ducation Room GOD’s HOUSE

.00 12pm

Tom James: ‘Tudor Southampton: reflections of an old hand’

Professor Tom Beaumont James has worked on aspects of Tudor Southampton for over forty years. In this presentation he reflects on the Tudor town whose unique and fascinating history and archaeology has inspired the ‘Tudor Revels’ project.

The population of Southampton grew substantially during this period and many fortunes were made and lost. While some townspeople had rich and well appointed households and warehouses full of imported and valuable furnishings and possessions, others were poverty-stricken and driven from the town. The town’s excellent archives and archaeological records are plundered for this lecture.

Professor Emeritus Tom Beaumont James, MBE, FSA, was born in Southampton (where his father had helped families of the crew of Titanic who were bereaved in 1912). He studied Tudor Southampton for his PhD in the 1970s. Since then he has contributed four volumes to the Southampton Records Series of which he was General Editor for twenty years. He has recently written on the town in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries for the current Overland Trade Project, which has focused on the town’s unique brokage or overland records of commercial traffic in and out of Bargate. He has also written a history of England as well as books on medieval palaces and has lectured all over the world.

.00 13pm

Mary Kinoulty & Clare Barnes: Meet the Crew

Meet the crew of Henry VIII’s flagship Mary Rose with an illustrated talk from the Mary Rose Trust. Discover the stories of individuals including the Carpenter, Surgeon & Gunner.

Mary and Clare head up the education team of the world renowned Mary Rose Trust the new Mary Rose Museum opened this year in Portsmouth.

E ducation Room GOD’s HOUSE

.30 13pm

Jessica Lutkin: England’s Immigrants 1330-1550

England’s Immigrants is a major study of resident aliens in England in the late middle ages. Jessica will be presenting the project and its current findings, looking specifically at the resident aliens in Southampton and its environs.

Dr Jessica Lutkin is the Research Assistant for the England’s Immigrants 133-1550 project at the University of York and the National Archives.

.30 14pm

Sarah Morris: The Progress of Henry & Anne

Drawing on the research undertaken for her new book In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn Sarah will take you on a journey with Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII as they undertake the 1535 summer progress, with a particular emphasis on those places visited as they travelled through Hampshire including Southampton. The progress was the most lengthy and politically significant of Henry’s reign; it was also Anne’s last summer on earth, during which she conceived her final, ill-fated child. Find out about the places they visited, hear about some of the characters that welcomed their monarchs as the royal couple hunted and hawked their way through the Hampshire countryside.

Sarah Morris is an historical novelist and non fiction author, to add to the flavour of the event Sarah will be in full 1530s costume.

.30 15pm

Julian Ball: Preservation & Digitisation

Julian Ball from the University of Southampton’s Library Digitisation Unit will be letting us into the secrets of the digitisation of historic documents. The University have just undertaken the digitisation of the only surviving parish register from Tudor Southampton, that of the church of St Michael. The register will be available via links to the parish website and the Tudor Revels website.

Venue: Crawford Room.

C RAWFORD ROOM GOD’s HOUSE Books stalls, Story Telling, Meet the Author & Book signings

.00 12pm

Sarah Morris

Meet the author of In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn and Le Temps Viendra a novel of Anne Boleyn, a chance to get your book signed by the author.

.00 13pm

Storytelling with Caroline Tilly [approx 20 minutes] A new retelling of the legend of Bevis, Josian and Ascupart.

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.00 14pm

Launch of the new book Tudor Southampton: Rioters, Revellers & Reformers. with Dr Cheryl Butler of the Tudor Revels Project.

Tudor Southampton:

rioters revellers & reforme rs

By Dr Cheryl Butler

Launch of the NEW b o ok

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.00 15pm

Mary South

Editor of the Southampton Records Series & author of Southampton Days. Hear about the latest Records Series volume.

.30 15pm

Storytelling with Caroline Tilly [approx 20 minutes] A new retelling of the legend of Bevis, Josian and Ascupart.

GOD’s house Tudor Southampton Map & Trail Meet a member of the Southampton Tourist Guides Association for a virtual tour around the Tudor town using the 3D model constructed by local historian and former guide the late Ken Hellyar. Don’t forget to pick up the new trail leaflet so you can make a self guided tour around the old town of Southampton.

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Mezzanine Long Gallery – All Day, Living History With chippy ale wives, mouthy wool packers, the town gunner and the odd privateer, all sorts of characters from Southampton’s Tudor past will be around to delight you.

We also welcome dancers and musicians from the Renaissance Footnotes who will be doing impromptu performances and open, drop in dance sessions.

Gallery Ante Room The Education Team from the Mary Rose Trust will be on hand to introduce you to Tudor games, costumes & replica artefacts in a handling session of items associated with the ill-fated Mary Rose, Henry VIII’s flagship.

Roof Reception Area Hampshire spinners & weavers will be giving a display of a craft familiar to the townsfolk of Tudor Southampton.

Roof In Tudor Times the town gunner would have looked out from God’s House tower to see if the French were sailing up Southampton water, he could see archery practise on the saltmarsh and bowling on the green.

The views are still fantastic.

Access to the roof is limited to 10 persons at a time and timed tickets are available at the reception desk. First time 11.30am, and at 30 minute intervals till last at 4pm.

As well as God’s House tower there will be events in other nearby buildings...

ST JULIENS CHAPEL The chapel is private and special access has been agreed please wait the entrance gate on Winkle Street for your Revels volunteer who will escort you in for each performance.

Join the Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre for 15 minute interludes

.00 12pm .00 14pm

M eet the Ancestor – The Warden of God’s House

God’s House was founded in the 12th century and in the 14th century came into the possession of Queen’s College Oxford. It thrived as a religious centre, almshouse, resting place for travellers and one of the town’s most important Landlords, but what happened when the Reformation loomed?

.00 13pm .00 15pm

M eet the Ancestor – The Huguenot Refugee

In sixteenth century Europe wars of religion tore apart communities and saw religious refugees fleeing to countries more sympathetic to their religious views. What happened when some chose to come to Southampton?

.30 15pm

“Henry’s Horrid History”[45 minutes]

Join Mike Farley for his one man show that has delighted audiences at Leed’s Castle, Hever Castle, Blenhein Palace and Castle Hedingham. A show full of laughs and history perfect for a family audience who love their Blackadder and the Horrible Histories and performed by King Henry VIII himself – so make sure you enjoy it!

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More events...

Friary Gate Join the Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre for 15 minute interludes.

.00 12pm .00 13pm

.00 12pm .00 14pm

Meet the Ancestor – Friar Peacock e Friar is out preaching, the king is not amused and Th Cromwell’s men are on their way and who will look after the town’s water supply if the Friary is closed?!

Meet the Ancestor – Town Gunner & his wife art-time gunner, town glazier, and drum & flute player P Peter Breame has heard the French are on the coast, the Mary Rose has been sunk and he’s not sure if he has enough gun-powder, and worse than that his wife is on the warpath!

God’s House Gate Join the Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre for 15 minute interludes.

.30 12pm .30 14pm

Meet the Ancestor – Mary Janverin Wife, mother, inn-keeper, hunter of witches, abuser of mayors and burgesses, the Peggy Mitchell of the Tudor Star Inn, will have a lot to say for herself !

Guided Walk Start from Gods House Gate In the company of the Salt Marsh Rioter.

.00 13pm .00 14pm

Dirty Ditches, oysters, dead horses the sites, the sounds and smells and of Tudor Southampton. Find out how common the common lands actually were.

Mini Tour – God’s House Gate Start under the arch – 15mins.

.00 12pm

a mini tour around the exterior of God’s House tower and gate.

.00 15pm

a mini tour around the exterior of God’s House tower and gate.

.30 16pm

The event is closed by the Southampton Town Crier.

THE ANCEST T E ME 28th September 2013 ORS

The Tudor Revels working group would like to thank all the organisations and volunteers who have helped not only with today’s event but to the history and heritage of Southampton.

The full colour book of the project is available via the Tudor Revels website and from local book shops, it contains more than 100 images and photographs and covers the four themes of the Revels: Common Land, Reformation, The Town & The People as well as the story of Southampton and the Tudor monarchs.

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Tudor Southampton:

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By Dr Cheryl Butler

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