Keeping Time With The Tudors

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" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]

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Linked videos and playlists:

New Year Gifts at Henry’s Court: https://youtu.be/rgU718qHKGM
Cardinal Wolsey: Material and the Man: https://youtu.be/FYbHN4_zX9M
The Ambassadors: https://youtu.be/rmYGt1PCm6c
Hans Eworth: https://youtu.be/9-fso2TK-T8


Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Screenshot of https://www-british-history-ac-uk.lonlib.idm.oclc.org/letters-papers-hen8/vol7/pp4-12

Screenshot of https://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge/relation_05/

Screenshot of https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname?surname=HARCOURT#:~:text=Harcourt%20Family%20History,-Harcourt%20Name%20Meaning&text=English%20(of%20Norman%20origin)%20and,is%20very%20rare%20in%20France.

Portrait of Nicholas Kratzer by Hans Holbein the Younger (1528). Held by the Louvre Museum.

Screenshot of https://www-british-history-ac-uk.lonlib.idm.oclc.org/letters-papers-hen8/vol16/pp315-331

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:

https://www-british-history-ac-uk.lonlib.idm.oclc.org/letters-papers-hen8/vol7/pp4-12

https://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge/relation_05/

'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 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp158-165 [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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