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Issue 42 – January 2026
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageWe start this fourth full year of The Antiquary magazine by looking at things restored and destroyed. We take you first to Wymondham Abbey in Norfolk, a monastic church severely damaged at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, we look at an artistic masterpiece of the twentieth century that has gone some way to restore dignity and colour to this great church. We then take a brief look at the history of one of England’s lost Tudor palaces, the palace of Richmond – itself a great artistic and historical loss. Richmond Palace was demolished in the aftermath of the downfall of Charles I in January of 1649, and our last article this month looks at the rather chilling events of his trial and execution.
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Issue 41 – December 2025
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageChristmas is once again upon us, and in this final issue of The Antiquary for 2025, we begin with a suitably seasonal offering – a niche subject, I know – we trace the history of the Christmas pudding. Is it a recent or an ancient bit of English tradition? Read on to find out! After the stodge of Christmas pudding, something a little lighter – we look at the great skill of Tudor and Stuart miniature painters and how they were able to capture through their delicate art, the very essence of the people they depicted. Lastly, as we look towards the spring again, some places for you to visit – we take you on a tour of two of my favourite churches in Oxfordshire, I extoll their timeless texture and the treasures they contain.
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Issue 40 – November 2025
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageWe had intended to publish the first article, on Nelson’s funeral, in October’s issue, to coincide with Trafalgar Day, but here it is in November instead. During this time of remembrance, as the days shorten, it still seems appropriate to discuss one of the grandest funerals to ever take place on English soil. This is followed by two articles that flow seamlessly from one to another. We take a brief look at some interesting examples of medieval woodwork in Suffolk churches that escaped iconoclasm, and discuss their uses. The consideration of that subject leads to an examination of a very fine tomb in one of the churches. The story of the tomb, and the people commemorated, is a prelude to a discussion about the power of patronage, and how the social ties and obligations that bound a medieval king or lord to his retainers might be expressed through the use of livery collars.
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Issue 38 – September 2025
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageIn the first article this month we take you on a journey into another time and to a rather otherworldly Welsh valley, that has been a place of pilgrimage since the seventh century. It contains the shrine of St Melangell, a mysterious and gentle female ascetic, whose cult fell into obscurity at the time of the Reformation. The shrine has seen a remarkable renaissance since the 1980s and now enriches modern day pilgrims. Then we move to England and to Peterborough, where we come face-to-face with someone rather more earthy, a rugged gravedigger called ‘Old Scarlett.’ His primary claim to fame was the burial of two queens and he has been commemorated for posterity by a curious monument. In contrast to the Welsh ascetic Melangell who ended her days in peace, in the final article we explore the last days of one of the queens Old Scarlett buried, the tragic Katherine of Aragon, and look at the funeral rituals at her burial that he would have witnessed.
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Issue 36 – July 2025
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThis issue marks the third anniversary of The Antiquary, and we present a trio of articles on diverse subjects. It is becoming quite fashionable these days to burst the bubble of commonly held historical myths, and in the first article, the late Dr Nicholas Groves addresses the dubious concept of the ‘devil’s door’ in English parish churches. The second article looks at the curious afterlife of ordinary medieval manuscript books, where they often survive as mere fragments reused within the book bindings of the printed books that replaced them. Lastly, we look at another extraordinary reuse, this time of a building, as we explore the history of one of the major projects of Henry VIII’s early reign, Bridewell Palace in London, and its later function as the most notorious of all English workhouses.
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Issue 27 – October 2024
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe two articles this month are quite unintentionally linked by the theme of Italian exile. In the first article we look at the life of Sir Robert Dudley – the son of the Elizabethan courtier, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. He was born out of wedlock, primarily as his father was still hoping to marry Elizabeth I. His life was entirely shaped by the circumstances of his birth. He spent the last forty years of his life in Italy, where as a man of great ability he had a very productive life – but he entered a bigamous marriage there, and left behind in England a wife and family who had to fend for themselves. The second exile was William Beckford, who was the wealthiest man in England in his lifetime. His wealth was inherited when he was ten and was built upon the profit of plantations and slaves. His ten years of exile, were a consequence of social disgrace. He returned to a self-imposed exile in which he poured all his money and his soul into one of the most extraordinary fantasy buildings ever constructed in England: Fonthill Abbey. The study of the past very often brings us face to face with actions and behaviours that makes us uncomfortable, and social rules that are seemingly inexplicable. The story of these two individuals, are no exception. Although men of great ability, their lives were shaped by the actions of others and the social norms of the times they lived in, but their behaviour was, at times, also deeply questionable.
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Issue 24 – July 2024
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageWelcome to the July 2024 issue of The Antiquary. Some of you may have seen the recent video I released on YouTube about the lost palace of Whitehall, the principal royal palace in Tudor and Stuart London. In this issue, I begin by looking at three terracotta busts, portrait heads that were part of the royal collection at Whitehall and somehow managed to survive the fire that consumed the palace in 1698, to be rediscovered in a rag-and-bone shop in the 1760s. Then we look at another extraordinary lost structure, Old London Bridge, which has long since been knocked down; it didn’t fall down as the nursery rhyme suggests! As usual, there is always a thread connecting the various articles, and the thread between the first article and the second is Cardinal John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; he commissioned the terracotta heads, and following his unjust execution at the hands of Henry VIII, his real head ended up on a spike on London Bridge. The third article looks at the survival rather than the loss of historic buildings, and we look at the twelfth-century houses in the city of Lincoln – again, there is a royal theme, for recent research suggests that one of these was an English royal palace.t I do hope you enjoy the issue, which marks the end of the second year of this publication, and I want to thank you for all of your support over that period of that time – there are lots more to come!
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Issue 3 – October 2022
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageDeath in the Western world today is often sanitised and hidden from view. Medieval people had the same fears as we have about death but were perhaps more sanguine and more prepared to reflect on the brevity of life than we are now because death was less hidden. Mortality among the young was high; pestilence carried people off with great regularity – people often lived in close-knit communities and faced the reality of death daily. People usually died at home, and the sight of dead bodies tightly wrapped in figure-hugging shrouds, buried in shallow graves within the churchyard, or for the wealthier members of society below the floor of the parish church itself, was part of the typical medieval life experience. In this issue, we explore the subject of medieval death and the monuments that medieval people erected to their dead.
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