Because several articles have stacked up and I don’t want to make these in to separate posts, here’s a quick round up:

** Henry VIII talks from the Historic Royal Palaces (podcasts)

** Mary Rose 500 – a final fundraising appeal from the Mary Rose Trust and info on how you can “join the crew” by helping to raise money for the new museum

** From The Surrey Comet:
Elmbridge Museum holds exhibition on Oatlands Palace

Elmbridge Museum is holding an exhibition starting next month on the now destroyed Oatlands Palace in Weybridge.

The museum, which is based in Church Street, Weybridge, is holding the exhibition called Oatlands Underfoot: Stones and Stories from a Forgotten Palace, which will attempt to bring to life one of Henry VIII’s lesser-known palaces.

** From The Yorkshire Post:
Henry saw resort as northern stronghold, historic map reveals

SCARBOROUGH played a key part in Henry VIII’s defence against invasion, a recently unearthed map reveals.

A town plan, drawn around 1539, has been found among thousands of documents in British Library archives

** From The Daily Mail:
Saved for the nation: The oak trees that shaded Henry VIII and his bride-to-be Jane

Their towering trunks and gnarled boughs once bore silent witness to the courtship of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour.

Little wonder, then, that the oaks and beeches have been identified as some of Britain’s most historic trees, so that they can be protected for future generations.

In the biggest project of its kind, experts have painstakingly identified and mapped 4,500 of the oldest trees in the royal hunting forest of Savernake.

Great project – I love gnarly old trees!