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This post is about an e-tour of the kitchen at Old Gainsborough Hall, in which meals were once cooked for Richard III and Henry VIII. Please note that I have put those monarchs in their correct order. How dare they name Fat Henry before Richard III! Apart from that awful error, this is very interesting. The names are listedproperly in the little video, just not in the article. See here, including the video—https://www.newsweek.com/medieval-kitchen-gainsborough-old-hall-england-tiktok-1982088.

https://www.historyhit.com/locations/gainsborough-old-hall/, here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e7ln3ye99o and here https://thetudortravelguide.com/gainsborough-old-hall/. The last link gives a grudging mention of Richard III, but goes on about the hall’s importance in the ‘Tudorsphere’ world because of its association with Henry VII and two of his wives, Katherines Howard and Parr.

You can go on a video tour of the entire Old Hall (“a complete Tudor time capsule”!) here https://youtu.be/leTSwqdRFwc. The complete Tudor time capsule (ahem) is then described as dating back to the 1460s. Once again the rule of the Tudors is ridiculously elastic! The hall was built by the Yorkist Sir Thomas Burgh, who fought for Richard III at Bosworth. But, oh dear, who took the throne in 1485? Why, Henry VIII! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you read it here first. Henry VII has been wiped from history! 😄 But the video is worth watching for all that it shows of the magnificent mid-15th-century Gainsborough Old Hall!

Oh lordy, you couldn’t make it up! Well, you could, the Tudors did it all the time!