Tag: Tudor

Monday lunch with the Tudors

I’m reading C J Sansom’s latest book Tombland, a murder-mystery set in 1549 and starring the lawyer Matthew Shardlake as medieval sleuth. It’s a time of change. The…

Staple Inn

l used to walk past this building on High Holborn for years and always assumed it was mock Tudor. Turns out I was wrong and on more than…

Temple Tudor (and other period buildings)

It’s another wonderful, secluded London sanctuary hidden in plain sight from the busy streets that surround it, including Fleet Street and the Embankment. And it’s also another piece of…