Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the dining room at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

#HardwickHall #BessOfHardwick #Elizabethan #architecture #decor #DiningRoom

“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.” Bess of Hardwick and her husband George Talbot were ‘asked’ by Queen Elizabeth to imprison rebellious Mary Queen of Scots in their home – the resulting tensions possibly fuelling the breakdown of their marriage. More about Bess in the latest HHE Podcast.

https://linktr.ee/hhepodcast

#Yorkshire #bessofhardwick #Maryqueenofscots

Today's poem:

Bess of Hardwick: Four Times a Lady
- by Horace Warpole

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/720636451168157696/bess-of-hardwick-four-times-a-lady?source=share

#BessOfHardwick #HoraceWarpole #HardwickHall #poetry #ditty #history

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the garden, Hardwick Hall.

#HardwickHall #garden #architecture #landscaping #elizabethan #cheshire #StatelyHome #BessOfHardwick

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the facade of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

#HardwickHall #BessOfHardwick #architecture #Elizabethan #derbyshire #StatelyHome #CountryHouse

Well this is very exciting! A 'literary and historical sensation', 57 letters written by Mary Queen of Scots have been decoded.

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/08/mary-queen-of-scots-prison-letters-finally-decoded

#MaryQueenofScots #Letters #History #Tudor #ElizabethI #BessOfHardwick

In the latest Issue of Tudor Places, Sarah Morris, the Tudor Travel Guide, takes us up north, to Derbyshire and just over the county border into South Yorkshire to visit Sheffield, on the trail of the powerful Talbot family, better known as the Earls of Shrewsbury.

https://bit.ly/3IR9dYL

#tudorplaces #tudorplacesmag #tudorplacesmagazine #earlofshrewsbury #bessofhardwick #historytravel #historicallocations #effigies #southyorkshire #derbyshire #sheffield

In the latest Issue of Tudor Places, Sarah Morris, the Tudor Travel Guide, takes us up north, to Derbyshire and just over the county border into South Yorkshire to visit Sheffield, on the trail of the powerful Talbot family, better known as the Earls of Shrewsbury.

https://bit.ly/3VxWf5i

#tudorplaces #tudorplacesmag #tudorplacesmagazine #earlofshrewsbury #bessofhardwick #historytravel #historicallocations #effigies #southyorkshire #derbyshire #sheffield