The royal Tudor bedroom: scraps from the cutting room floor

Dr Timothy Schroder, Dlitt FSA. Former curator, LA County Museum and Somerset House, London
The king's bedroom in the early modern period was more than a place for sleeping. It was the scene of a wide range of royal activities, from eating and drinking to the ceremonies surrounding new year’s gifts and the reception of ambassadors. This talk will spin a narrative from some of the many anecdotal descriptions of court life gleaned from the voluminous pages of the State Papers of the reign of Henry VIII.