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Mick Aston
Bamburgh - By Mick Aston
Thursday 21 April 2011
I have wanted to visit Bamburgh for many years as I read several years ago that a new research project had started, and that some new archaeological work was underway. Bamburgh has a vast Norman and later castle, and this is the most obvious feature, but for me it is the earlier pre-Norman aspects of the site which are the most interesting. Bamburgh was the fortress capital of the Bernician Anglo-Saxon kingdom (these peoples were actually Anglians), one of the groups, who with the people of Deira (roughly Yorkshire) were known as the Northumbrians. Brian Hope-Taylor, a great charismatic archaeologist of the twentieth century, had excavated here but his work was never published and little has been done since.
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Project Director - Graeme Young
Bamburgh - By Graeme Young
Thursday 21 April 2011
Time Team's visit to Bamburgh was a little different to the normal filming experience, as the team were visiting an ongoing long-term research project, rather than leading their own excavation.,/p> Bamburgh Research Project was set up in 1996 by a small group of archaeologists, myself included, who were interested in the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria. Since then it has grown from a weekend hobby to a substantial research excavation that aims to bring to light thousands of years of occupation of a fascinating site. BRP is no stranger to film and TV, having appeared in many documentaries and even a documentary feature film, and the project is also one of the first major projects to have been comprehensively recorded on digital video. Over ten years of excavations have produced in excess of 1200 hours of footage which is considered to be part of the primary record of the site.
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Hampton Court Palace
Thursday 09 April 2009
Hampton Court is the most impressive Tudor palace left to us, a triumph of architectural design and a lasting symbol of Henry VIII's legacy.
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Beaulieu Palace
Thursday 09 April 2009
Just off the A12 outside Chelmsford in Essex is New Hall. Today it is a bustling private Catholic school, but this imposing building with its impressive Elizabethan facade hides quite a secret: it was here that Henry VIII built his first palace, Beaulieu.
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Henry VIII's Lost Palaces
Thursday 09 April 2009
The year 1509 saw the accession to the throne of Henry VIII, a man who would change the face of Britain and the religious and political map of Europe forever.
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