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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Snow in Summer is one of our favourite dishes. A baked #gingerbread base of almonds, sugar and breadcrumbs, with sweet creamy 'snow' on top. See this and much more at our #Tudor Midsummer event www.kentwell.co.uk/midsummer #nationalgingerbreadday #kentwell #kentwell1536 #tudors #reenactment

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

#lisleletters #otd 1536 John Russell writes to Lord Lisle: the King thanks you heartily for the peasen ye sent to him, not only for the neweltye but also for your good remembrance. #onthisday #tudor #earlymodern #peas #henryviii #tudors #historicalfood #kentwell1536 @kentwellhall.bsky.social

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Fashion fan? Browse the latest styles at our Regency hat shop, meet the flamboyant Georgian dandyfops, and stop by an Edwardians picnic. Wear your best for a front row seat at the multi-period fashion show! Be transported through time at our History Festival24-26 May www.kentwell.co.uk/thrutheages

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Taking tea in the Regency era. Our History Festival runs from 24-26 May, and spans history from neolithic times through to the 1970s www.kentwell.co.uk/thrutheages #internationalteaday #tea #regency #historyfestival #historicalreenactment #suffolk #greatdayout

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

So much is happening in 1536... Visit our Tudor Midsummer event to find out more www.kentwell.co.uk/midsummer

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Tudor Midsummer — Kentwell Hall

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

#lisleletters #otd 1536 Anthony Pickering writes to Lord Lisle: this present day the Queen was put to death within the Tower in the presence of a thousand people. #anneboleyn #tudor #tudors #kentwell1536 #onthisday @kentwellhall.bsky.social

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g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"some do utterly abhorre cheese and hit is to them as poyson so some other do naturally love cheese and hit is to them a better foode in respecte nature doth deleighte in hitthen any other meate. And therefore Hippocrates in this place doth evidently declare that cheese is not to mankinde hurtefull"

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Álfheiðr @sphecida.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

‘he that will judge whether cheese be a convenyent foode for him, must consider the nature of the body, and the temperamente of the cheese and both considered he shalbe hable to judge whether he is like to take harme be cheese or not.’

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Birdie's Bindings @birdiesbindings.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A quick 30 seconds of me sewing some quires before the day started at the recent Tudor May Day event at Kentwell Hall. #tudor #tudortuesday #bookbinding #booksky #craft #kentwell #kentwellhall

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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Entertaining Henry is performing 20-22 June at The Quay Theatre in Sudbury, Suffolk - three days, six plays, one king. There is a discount if you book for more than one day, and plenty else to do in the area - Kentwell Hall is down the road with Tudor re-enactments that weekend! #history #pilgrimage

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Nigel Amies MA @nigela.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I had a great time last weekend portraying a Dane/Viking with Suffolk Viking chums at Kentwell Hall. Fantastic site, company and weather!

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

It's all happening in 1536... Come to our Midsummer #Tudor event and find out more www.kentwell.co.uk/midsummer

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Tudor Midsummer — Kentwell Hall

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

#lisleletters #otd 1536 John Husee writes to Lord Lisle: This day Mr Norrys, Wester, Bryerton, and Markes hath been arraigned, and are judged to be drawn, hanged and quartered. I pray God have mercy on them. #kentwell1536 #anneboleyn #tudor #tudors @kentwellhall.bsky.social

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Felix Reuben Elliott Gilbert @felixregilbert.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My writing a few months ago. Augustino De Siena’s writing book is a beautiful piece of handwriting history

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

#Vikings again today, 11-4. If #warpweightedlooms and #beards are your thing I recommend it. If not, the #historichouse, #tearooms and beautiful #gardens are open as usual. #suffolk #daysout #heritage

Viking in front of a longhouse. He has a long beard which is arranged in 2 plaits.

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Nice to see a familiar face! Nick came to see thatching materials @themerl.bsky.social a few years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=drIw...

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Master Thatcher: 1951

YouTube video by The Museum of English Rural Life

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

#lisleletters #otd 1536 Sir John Russell writes to Lord Lisle: And the Queen shall go to her judgement on Monday next. #kentwell1536 #tudor #tudors #anneboleyn #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory @kentwellhall.bsky.social

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

So nice to hear we have had an impact. ‘The 37-year-old first got a taste for the trade aged nine, when he met a thatcher at a Tudor re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in Long Melford - a thatcher who is his colleague today.’ #thatching #historicbuildings #heritagecrafts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'Safeguard thatching or Suffolk areas risk losing character'

It is estimated there are about 25,000 buildings with thatched roofs that are listed.

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

We have #Vikings today. It’s a lovely spring day for Vikings ❤️ (Photos by Mike Hill) #daysout #suffolk #eastanglia #history #reenactment #earlymedieval #medieval

Two brightly dressed Vikings in the woods

A Viking woman in an orange apron dress with a sprang hair net cooking with a clay cooking pot on a fire

An intimidating looking Viking in front of a wooden house holding an axe and round shield

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Birdie's Bindings @birdiesbindings.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

And on Sunday and Monday, I shall be here being a Tudor bookbinder. So excited! #bookbinding #booksky #tudor

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Something for #MayDay Bringing in the #May. Illumination by #Simonbening from an early #16thC #bookofhours BSB CLM 28346 #calendarcustoms #seasonalcustoms #otd #onthisday #earlymodern

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

May Day coming up! There will be a mummers’ play, May Queen, and dancing round a maypole. So much fun! Also lovely food & cake in our tearoom. And house, gardens, crafts. Mayday festivities 3-5th May, www.kentwell.co.uk #mayday #maypole #mayqueen #spring #folklore #daysout #bankholiday

Photo of a reenactor dressed as St George fighting a pantomime horse style dragon with a big green head

3 little girls in white crowned with garlands sitting on a wagon under a flowery arch

A long line of people in Tudor and modern clothes dancing round a decorated tree

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

These look marvellous; with #Kentwell1536 #Easter coming up I think I need to have a word with our #Tudor cooks. (On Easter itself of course we can have actual eggs, but the days leading up to it are still in Lent….) #foodhistory #medieval #16thc #livinghistory

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We’re looking forward to this too! Highlights include #foodhistorian Ivan Day talking about #Tudor #sweetmeats, Sarah Thursfield on #whitework #embroidery, Mally Ley on #silkwork & costume historian @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social who is always fascinating. & it’s bargain price & you can attend online

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We would like to announce DUCKLINGS! www.facebook.com/share/18zGXA... If you go to our Facebook page you can watch the video of them actually moving. Or just like us on Facebook. 🙂 facebook.com/KentwellHall #spring #ducklings #daysout

Screenshot from a Facebook reel showing a stretch of water lined with wintry trees with a mother duck and her ducklings behind her.

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is what we do. When we’re not tidying up lambs.

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We’ve been tidying up the lambs because they were all over the place, you could hardly move for lambs. Open today and all the Easter holidays! #suffolk #daysout #sheep #easterholidays

Lambs on the grass, lambs on the path, lambs under an awning.

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Pigs’n’boots! Our piglets are exploring everywhere. They are very curious and brave and they like feet. #suffolk #easterholidays #daysout #farm #gardens #historichouse #piglets #pigs #babyanimals #cute

Two tiny black piglets with pink noses snuffling around someone’s foot.

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#flowersonfriday This is what the Kentwell #dairy did for #Easter Sunday last year. #Cheese is v exciting when you have given it up for Lent like all good pre-Reformation #Tudors. Only 2 weeks till you can come & see it being made at our next event. #easterholidays #daysout #historichouses

Soft cheeses and butterballs decorated with primroses and forget-me-nots.
One cheese has a cross shape on it made of butter.

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Darren Underwood @dku1000.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Newly arrived spring migrants on my local patch this morning: HOUSE MARTIN at Liston (Essex) and SWALLOW at Long Melford (Suffolk). Nice to see both back. #essexbirding #suffolkbirding

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is what we do. When we’re not tidying up lambs.

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We’ve been tidying up the lambs because they were all over the place, you could hardly move for lambs. Open today and all the Easter holidays! #suffolk #daysout #sheep #easterholidays

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

And they’re done! He just has to make the sheaths now. We think he’s done an amazing job - what do you think? #ironworkthursday #metalwork #craftsky #cutlery #knives #tudor #earlymodern #kentwell1536

Two wood-handled knives with curved blades lie on a piece of leather.

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Lovely day at Kentwell today, with a calm, reflective moat. If you look carefully you can see two of our bigger fish cruising. Fish food is available in the shop! We are open every day of the Easter holidays, starting this weekend 😊

View of a Tudor brick bridge over a moat, its 3 arches reflected in the still water.
In the foreground 2 dark shapes glide through the water….

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

#WindowsonWednesday comes from the Tudor Great Kitchen today. Just over a fortnight till our first #history event of the year, #Kentwell1536 Eastertide. There will also be an #egghunt, games & a children’s I-spy trail. www.kentwell.co.uk/easter #easter #easterholidays #heritage #suffolk #daysout

A girl in a green Tudor dress with a white linen cap is cooking over a charcoal hob in front of an open window with diamond panes.

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Main goal for our new kiln is better fuel efficiency. Must admit when I saw how it swallows up trees I properly understood why #medieval and #earlymodern #glassmaking tends to be situated in heavily wooded places (Weald in England, German forests). #crafts #historysky #medievalsky #medievalsky

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llewly.bsky.social @llewly.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Visited yesterday for the first time (newly local) and LOVED it! What a wonderful place, full of individuality and independent spirit. Can’t wait to come back!

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