Aaron Manning

Interpretation Manager at Hampton Court Palace. Also historian of @WarwickCastle and Director of @WarwickWords History Festival. Views are mine or someones...

[Aaron Manning @AManningHistory]

A NEW TUDOR DISCOVERY?

Last week I was invited to Warwick Castle to consult on a recent discovery made during conservation work.

Conservation specialists made the find while repairing a plaster ceiling in the Cedar Drawing Room.

Here’s what they found…

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[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Honestly!

What's sport without historically-themed badinage?

(Villa could have responded by putting up an image of local boy, the Earl of Warwick, who supervised Joan's trial, at Villa Park...)

https://t.co/FmH1LmZ3Wu

[Adam Busiakiewicz @Adam_FineArt]

Join @AManningHistory and myself on Saturday 21st March to find out more about this fine looking fellow in Warwick’s Shire Hall. He will feature in our brand new walking tour of the hall’s portrait collection. https://t.co/QNwRPUAZw0

[Aaron Manning @AManningHistory]

Baloney from start to finish sadly. From the actual story of the rebuilding, you need to check ⁦@Adam_FineArt⁩’s PhD thesis at https://t.co/0KblNw5EiV

How Warwick Castle was 'restored on the cheap' after 1871 fire - BBC News

⁦⁦@BBCCWR⁩ https://t.co/eR8z1IdLqF

[Adam Busiakiewicz @Adam_FineArt]

Honoured to be speaking at the @WarwickWords festival this autumn. The full line up has been announced today: https://t.co/6iejVhR7sv

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK after 900 years https://t.co/1mNYTSQKpJ

[Aaron Manning @AManningHistory]

It’s all getting a little 18th Century in Warwickshire!!

Reminds of the Gentleman’s Party v Independent Party in the 1790s, when newly elected Independents accused the council of being ‘powerfully protected from the lofty turrets of the castle” https://t.co/lrY7sWB8ht

[Plantagenet @Plantagenet1455]

Anne Neville was born on June 11, 1456, at Warwick Castle. Her life was profoundly shaped by the Wars of the Roses, and she is widely considered a key example of how noblewomen were used as pawns to forge alliances, secure loyalty, and advance power in 15th century England.

[Laura Karim @LauraAKarim]

Happy 569th Birthday to Anne Neville, wife of #RichardIII

Immortalised by Shakespeare as a victim with no agency. But is this credible?

It must have taken guts to refuse the veil & flee Clarence’s household. Plus Anne was in London with RIII during the critical weeks in 1483.

[Adam Busiakiewicz @Adam_FineArt]

Earlier this year I presented lecture on how I rediscovered a missing portrait of Henry VIII via @X . You can watch it here with a suggested donation of £5 to help for its redisplay! @OisinTheDeer @Warwickshire_CC https://t.co/mmAxV99NVG

[Aaron Manning @AManningHistory]

It reminded me of a funny story of the Prince wrote in his book, when Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull were invited to Warwick Castle one Christmas, & the shambles that followed.

I once asked Lady Brooke about this story, but she refused to talk about "the disgusting creatures"!

[Aaron Manning @AManningHistory]

Enjoyed listening to @theresthistory episodes on the Rolling Stones, & the mention of their banker Prince Rupert Lowenstein, who convinced the Stones to live as tax exiles in France.
The Prince convinced Lord Brooke to sell Warwick Castle and live in France as a tax exile too.

[Aaron Manning @AManningHistory]

I've transcribed the letters and written about them here

https://t.co/V4ocOCwDYf

[Aaron Manning @AManningHistory]

📚THE LOST LOVE LETTERS OF GEORGE 'BEAU' BRUMMELL? 📚

Walking through Savile Row recently reminded me of a series of letters I found in the Warwick family archives during the pandemic written to Sarah lady Monson, by none other than George 'Beau' Brummell

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[Aaron Manning @AManningHistory]

Surprisingly, Sarah kept the letters in her papers!

From what I've read and researched, these letters have never been referenced or acknowledged by Georgian scholars. They paint a fascinating psychological window into Brummell in the worst weeks of his life.

[The World Turned Upside Down @world_turned]

LISTEN
How the Greville family made @WarwickCastle a Parliamentary stronghold
@RoyalHistSoc reveals for the first time how Lord & Lady Brooke made a strategic stronghold and withstood a Royalist siege.
In this podcast, the authors of the new book explore.
https://t.co/SrPWTjEamk

[Zahid Sohail @ZSohail10]

The latest History Roadshow YouTube video "History Speaks with Aaron Manning about Warwick Castle": https://t.co/93Lsg3CJaD. @AManningHistory

[Dr Daisy Dixon @daisyldixon]

I’m excited to say that my first book DEPRAVITY: The Story of Dangerous Art will be published next year by @FaberBooks in the UK, and @VikingBooks in the US 🖤
it tells the story of art from a darker perspective, charting the most immoral art ever produced by humanity..

[Capel Lofft @CapelLofft]

I have it confirmed that 'The Rage of Party' is off for copy-editing. Revisions definitely done - it's really happening, publishing in Sept

And I managed to get it down to a measly 189,000 words. @dcsandbrook's advice - 'Don't worry if it's very long' - still heeded tho I feel.

[BBC Midlands @bbcmtd]

Museum hopes to see Henry VIII portrait restored https://t.co/tLPMtwHGWd