Keeping Time With The Tudors
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2024
- In my last video I asked if people would be interested in a video exploring Tudor timepieces, the response was very positive so that is what we will be looking at today…
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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [ • Greenery - Silent Part... ]
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Linked videos and playlists:
New Year Gifts at Henry’s Court: • New Year Gifts for Kin...
Cardinal Wolsey: Material and the Man: • Cardinal Wolsey: Mater...
The Ambassadors: • Dr Kat and The Ambassa...
Hans Eworth: • Hans Eworth: Tudor Artist
Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
Screenshot of www-british-history-ac-uk.lon...
Screenshot of museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowled...
Screenshot of www.familysearch.org/en/surna....
Portrait of Nicholas Kratzer by Hans Holbein the Younger (1528). Held by the Louvre Museum.
Screenshot of www-british-history-ac-uk.lon...
Photograph of the polyhedral dial made for Cardinal Wolsey, attributed to Nicholas Kratzer. Held by History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.54054.
Portrait of Henry VIII after Hans Holbein the Younger (after 1537). Held by the Walker Art Gallery.
Photograph of the Royal Clock Salt by Pierre Mangot (c.1530-35). Held by the Goldsmiths’ Company.
Photograph of Hampton Court Palace’s Astronomical Clock face, attributed to Nicholas Kratzer and Nicholas Oursian (c.1540). Photograph taken by Mike Cattell (2010).
Photograph of Hampton Court Palace’s Astronomical Clock and Anne Boleyn’s Gateway, attributed to Nicholas Kratzer and Nicholas Oursian (c.1540). Photograph taken by Len Williams (2009).
A part of the panorama of London by Claes Van Visscher, 1616. Old St Paul's had lost its spire by this time. The two theatres on the foreground (Southwark) side of the Thames are the Bear Garden and The Globe. The large church in the foreground is St Mary Overie, now Southwark Cathedral.
“The Ambassadors” by Hans Holbein the Younge (1533). Held by the National Gallery.
Portrait of Mary Neville, Lady Dacre by Hans Eworth (c.1555-1558). Held by the National Gallery of Canada.
Portrait of John Isham from the circle of Gerlach Flicke (c.1567). Held by Lamport Hall.
Portrait of William Ffytch by an unknown artist (1550). Held by the national Trust at Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire.
Quoted texts:
www-british-history-ac-uk.lon...
museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowled...
'Industries: Clock and watch-making', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2, General; Ashford, East Bedfont With Hatton, Feltham, Hampton With Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton, ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 158-165. British History Online www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/... [last accessed 4 January 2024].
Timothy Schroder, ‘A Marvel to Behold’: Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII (2020) p. 172.
Also consulted, were:
Relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
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We asked and the Queen has delivered!! Thank you as always for your intelligent, well thought out, and entertaining content!! 🕰
The Paston letters would be a real treat. ❤ ⏰️
Thank you, Dr Kat, for such an informative discussion of a topic not generally found in history blogs or books. I especially love anything to do with Hans Holbein.
Excellent point about the Memento Mori aspect of why clocks appear in paintings, and in our lives on walls and our own wrists! Great video!⏳🕰
Ah, the satisfaction that comes from getting a follow-up video Dr. Kat asked us if we wanted. 🥰 What a wonderful way to ring in the new year! ⏰️
England became an innovator in clock making when they instituted a prize for a clock that would remain accurate on a sailing ship, since accuracy was so difficult and so necessary for accurately measuring distance when traveling East West.
There’s a museum at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich where you can see the winning clock. We had a wonderful time talking to a man who worked there.
There’s a book all about it…I think it’s called Longitude.
It's hard to imagine a sundial, however many faces, could be of much use in a country so famous for it's foggy and rainy weather. One would have thought that that fact alone would have incentivized clock makers in England. Just like the navigational problems at sea would incentivize England, as a seafaring nation, to seek a solution to telling time at sea. Great video! ⌚⏱🕰
Huguenot clockmakers, yes. Swiss clockmakers? Absolutely fascinating, many thanks!
That was fantastic! I was particularly impressed with the bejeweled saltcellar clock & the portable sundials.⏳ I think Weird Al Yankovic may have been onto something in his parody Amish Paradise which features a sundial wristwatch. 😂
Sundial wrist watches were being sold in Melbourne, Australia in the 1980s. I have one. Accurized for Melbourne's latitude. The gnomon is a small piece of metal mounted on a spindle that folds flat against the dial when not in use. The dial is a compass with the hours marked on the rim. Basically you point it north, then spin up the gnomon to vertical and read off the time. I've used it a lot bushwalking as it's made of brass and is impervious to water and other damage. Unlike a mobile phone.
Comments like these are why I always love to check the comment section :)
I didn’t think I would be interested in this topic, but I should have known. You have taught me so much about so many diverse topics and people, I was utterly fascinated by these clocks, their symbolism, and their artistry. So sorry for doubting!
I have seen the Hampton Court Clock. My Auntie used to take me, there as there was/is so much to see. The colours on the clock and around the place are stunning.
I would have never noticed the time pieces without you pointing them out. Great presentation. ⌛🕰⏲
Old clocks ⏰ are fascinating things. I am always amazed any of the many tower clocks are being maintained, and we mortals get the chance to see their workings. The clock at Hampton Court Palace though…WOW. What a incredible mechanism! Thanks for another thought-provoking 🧐 video
The clock tower at Hampton was amazing! I’m going back there in March! Interesting video as always! 🕰️
Fascinating ⏰🕰️⏱️Thank you. Keep up with the great work 🎉
Thank-you for this video! Wonderful. 🧭⌛⏳⏰⏱⏲🕰🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘
This was so much fun ❤ l appreciate seeing such fascinating objects thatl may not get to seen person💝
Facinating and timely.
Fantastic! Another timekeeping topic, if it hasn't been done would be determining time....say, in a monastery, critical for prayer order, .... before timepieces and 60 minute hours! Again, brilliant!
Yes!!! The issue of non-standardized time is
absolutely fascinating.
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@lisascenic Absolutely! I've run into "time" problems well into the 19th Century. I was assisting an historian with the Battles of Deep Bottom, 1864, in Virginia during the American Civil War. My job was reading battle reports and establishing chronology. It suddenly dawned on me....I notified him, "We have to take statements such as 'It was about 6 o'clock' with a grain of salt and give more credence to statements such as 'the sun was peeking over the hill' (we have tables to approximate that).Time could be standardized on, say, a particular railroad line with telegraphers.....groups of people could synchronize watches but there was no standard time nor time zones. The historian was not happy....he was approaching a serial publishing deadline!
But, I'd love to know how a monastery managed it and what technology they used. Glad to meet another "nerd" that is fascinated about such things! Thank you for the response!
🎼Time…flowing like a river ❤Happy and fulfilled New Year, Dr. Kat! ⏰⏱️⏲️⌚️⏳⌛️🕰️
This is a great topic. The clocks are stunning!
Brava! OMG Dr. Kat! You’ve outdone yourself! I have always had a fascination with timepieces and own a few unusual ones. Henry’s two clocks that you showed us took my breath away! Does the clock at Hampton Court still work? 🕰️
The life of Margaret Paston fascinates me. A video on the Paston letters, pretty please? 😁
What an interesting topic! Thanks Dr. Kat!!
This was an interesting video and fascinating topic! 🧭🕰
Thank you so much for this video. Very much interesting and I especially enjoyed the section on the Hampton Court clock. Happy new Year!❤❤❤
Dr Kat! I just stumbled upon History After Dark yesterday! I love both versions of you! ❤😂
Dr. Kat and the widow Hyde😇😈 🕰⏰⏲⏱
@@hiwakoo i was thinking along that line 🤭
Fascinating as always. Thank you!🕰️⏳💀
I remember reading a book about Queen Jane I (Grey) and it included a list of items she had ordered in her short reign to be brought to her, at the Tower, and the list included descriptions of the items and there were some weird things in there, including an inordinate amount of clocks. They sounded more like... novelty/exotic gifts. I was wondering what was up with that, if she had some hobby or fascination when it came to clocks. But this video makes me realize that these were probably common gifts nobles would give one another and they must have had a lot of them just laying around.
Thanks as always for your well-researched and entertaining videos!
Thanks Dr Kat! ❤ "I was once as you are now; As I am now, so shall you be."
🧭⏳🕧🌚🌝🌞 I knew that the Tudors had clocks and that that was VERY important for traveling across the ocean; I had no idea how varied their timepieces were -- and how many aspects of time they kept track of. I knew of one little timepiece that kept track of the hour, only, but that is all. This is very, VERY interesting.
Time flies and another year has gone. All the better in this new year. ❤
Wasn’t expecting this subject to be as interesting and entertaining as it turned out to be. The visuals and explanations of them particularly helped with this. Even the images I’d seen before I often hadn’t realised were timepieces, or how complex they were and how old they were. Very informative. Thank you!
Great video as usual! I got to see The Ambassadors in person and absolutely loved it!
Love your content! Keep up the good work 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
One of my grandfathers was a collector and repairer of clocks here in the USA. It's great to see beautiful old examples of timepieces from across the pond. Love your channel! ❤
Fabulous video as always, Dr. Kat. Always informative and entertaining. Thank you, and Happy New Year.
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Happy New Year Dr Kat, and thanks for the wonderful content. 👍
Wonderful video- very interesting- Thank you, Dr. Kat
Wonderful info. Happy New Year!
Thanks so much, Dr. Kat! One of my father's hobbies was to work on antique clocks from the mid to late 1800s here in the USA, so I'm particularly fond of clocks. I loved the examples you showed of painting with various timepieces in them, and what the painter may have been commenting on or portraying by adding them to his painting. Good stuff, as always! 🕰⏳
Phew. I wonder if you can imagine what it's like finding your channel full of fascinating, trustworthy information after scrolling the endless sludge of lies and fabrications. It's like a good meal when you're starving hungry!!!!
Utterly brilliant. I have a little confession I love listening to you whilest I do micro Crochet and my daughter who doesn't "do history", because she was put off it at school likes listening to you and has now decided due to you that history isn't boring and that she likes history. Thank you so very much for sparking my daughter's enjoyment of history
Thank you for showing us these fabulous timepieces! Amazing!
I have never found clocks interesting before and yet I’ve found your video on clocks really interesting
Your bookcases look refreshed and renewed!📚
I would like to see the video about the Paston letters. That would be very interesting!
Fascinating stuff! ⏰
Well done 🏫🕰️⌛️⏱️I rather like the time pieces you shared. Thank you Dr. Kat 🥰
Love your work. Can't wait till your next video
Didn't know about the salt clock. That one is amazing. Really, they all are. That octagonal one is very interesting.
🕰Another brilliant video! I've learned so much from you and appreciate all that you do. I know that so much goes into the preparation of these videos (and it shows!), and I feel so fortunate to have found you and followed your channel!
I pov3d the Wolsey clock but the one at Hampton Court was amazing! Loved the tidal information and how important it was to river travelling
🕰 Thanks for the insight, Dr Kat!
Fascinating as always Thank you x
Fascinating and well presented topic, as always!
Have very much appreciated your videos and would love to see something on the Paston letters
🙋♀️ from Canada
🥰🕰️ loved this, already a subject I'm interested in and Dr Kat as always you make it all the more interesting!🥰
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Thank you! I loved this!⏳⌚🕰️
Absolutely fascinating!⏳⌛🕰
Loving your channel! Thank you!!❤
A video on the Pastons - yes please
I had no idea clocks were so important in this period (but of course this makes perfect sense)
Thank you for the video on Tudor timepieces! 🕰️❤
🕰 Fascinating as always!
Ooooooooooooh! I was so looking forward to this topic!!! Truly!!!
Fascinating!!
Loved this video! ⏲
I loved the idea of a 24 hour clock face.👍
I would be very interested to hear your insights into the Paston letters.
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Likewise, a discussion on attitudes on mortality during this period. The imagery related to the idea of memento mori would be a great topic to explore. There are soooo many great examples!
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I love that Keeping Time with the Tudors sounds like a sort of contemporary reality show. I don’t generally watch reality tv, but I would probably watch a Tudor show, played like one! 🕰️ 😊
Thank you, Dr Kat, ⏲
You are awesome ! Thank you for such informative videos! ⏰️ 🕑
thank you very much, I am learning a lot!
❤🎉 Party with Dr.Kat on Fridays!!
Oooh. WELL DONE! ⏳
Wonderful video, Dr Kat!! I saw the clock at Hampton Court but didn’t really pay attention to it. 😢 Now I have to go back 😊🛫
So interesting! Thanks.
I really enjoyed this episode
Honestly, love my Friday fix , thanks.
⏰🕰️⏱️facinating video. Thank you.
Happy New Year 🕰️
That was really interesting. Thanks! ⌛⏰⏳🕐⌚
Happy New Year! ⏰
🕝🕒🕘🕤🕰️⏰🌛🌜🌍🌏👑👍Another outstanding presentation! 😊😊❤😊😊
Every time I even glance at the portrait of Lady Dacre I feel the need to climb into it and move that expensive little time piece away from the table edge. And it's on a cloth, too!
I'd love to hear your take on the Paston letters if others agree! ✍📃 ✒🧭🕰
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Thanks much again! 😺
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PLEASE do a video on the Paston Letters!!! I read Helen Castor's excellent work but I'd really love your thoughts!!!
🕰️ ⏰ ⏰ 🕰️ another fantastic video! Thank you!
🧭 Thank you for another great video
❤your videos
🕰Great video. Thanks
I enjoy finding tax records for the subjects of my research. Extra tax was levied for Clocks, Pianos, and Carriages, in Baltimore for example. I wonder how many clocks were buried in the back garden to avoid tax? (easier than burying a piano, for sure.)
We just recently had a dinner table conversation about geocentric vs. heliocentric, and I brought up the Hampton Court clock as an example. I’d love to see it in person someday. 🕐 I wonder if the lesser classes were still using nails in candles 🕯️ to mark time during the Tudor era?
Very interesting 🕰️⏲️⏰⏳⌛🕙
I’m curious in more about how the Tudors referenced the zodiac signs and how this worked in tandem with their highly Christian society as today I think we would tend to see them as more separate beliefs systems though not exclusively so.
Yes please 3:09!!!
We were lucky enough in Sept.2022, to visit Hampton Court Palace.
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I wonder when England began seeing the use of clockwork-like mechanisms for toys and novelty items.