Henry VIII on Tour: Landscape, Communities and Performance

都铎王朝时期深深吸引着现代观众。亨利八世统治时期（1509年至1547年）令人着迷的不仅是其宏伟的建筑和宫廷的辉煌，还有它的音乐、假面舞会、比赛和狩猎派对，还有它的政治阴谋和宗教争议。2022年标志着亨利和神圣罗马帝国皇帝查理五世在英格兰南部的壮观进展的五十周年。这也是英国女王伊丽莎白二世的白金禧年，2019年，她（根据她的王室职责）在全国各地进行了惊人的295次公共活动。这不仅是一个评估都铎王朝王室进程的好时机，也是一个反思君主制及其知名度在21世纪意味着什么的好时机。在个人君主制中，一个基本问题是国王在任何时候的位置，令人惊讶的是，我们并不总是知道亨利八世的位置。在为期一年的AHRC研究网络的基础上，亨利八世之旅汇集了来自学术和遗产部门的跨学科学者和技术专家团队，他们将通过对档案来源、建筑、考古、音乐和物质文化的密切研究，为亨利八世的进展提供重新概念化的信息。我们将专注于四个关键主题：后勤、王权/皇后地位、表现和遗产。通过绘制所有已知的进展地点，并在统治的连续阶段绘制持续时间、区域位置和住宿变化的图表，我们的项目首次建立了亨利八世的完整行程，大大增强了历史学家对王室进展目的及其对16世纪政治和宗教文化影响的理解。考察每个十年（1511年、1522年、1535年和1541年）的具体进展，我们将确定如何在近代早期治国方略的理想和挑战的背景下理解和重新解释它们。只要有可能，我们就把王位和王权放在一起考虑，强调亨利的女王在表演进步、宗教奉献和狩猎探险中是独立的演员。我们还将探讨“表演”进程的逻辑如何揭示未被充分研究的群体和社区的隐藏历史，以及这些进程本身如何促进思想、新闻、技能、建筑风格和音乐曲目在当地的对话和流通。该项目推出之际，正值遗产组织、博物馆和画廊在冠状病毒大流行导致长期关闭和不确定性后面临财务困难和身份危机。因此，我们将把《亨利八世》的进展作为连接遗产遗址的一种手段，并与我们的合作伙伴、利益相关者和当地历史焦点小组探讨遗产组织面临的挑战，以及他们可以帮助团结社区的方式。我们将与亨利八世曾经访问过的地方的现代居民合作，努力评估王室发展的遗产，并通过与我们的遗产合作伙伴利用当地历史网络共同创造，为翻译影响提供机会。我们还将通过参与都铎王朝遗址的社区考古和在原始环境中表演都铎王朝音乐的机会，吸引和激励感兴趣的公众。该项目的数字遗产（从“失落”遗址的可视化到移动设备的进展轨迹）为所有观众提供了研究都铎王朝历史的重要资源。《亨利八世之旅》将重新吸引和激励学校和博物馆的教育工作者，通过新的方式接近和发现过去，在课程中使用都铎王朝。我们将利用数字创意为景观和建筑赋予生命，展示数字遗产和档案研究如何结合在一起，讲述新的故事，提出并回答创新的研究问题，激发人们对当地的好奇心。

The Tudor period captivates modern audiences. Henry VIII's reign (1509-47) fascinates as much for its architectural magnificence and courtly splendour, its music, masques, tournaments and hunting parties as it does for its political machinations and religious controversies. 2022 marks the quincentenary of Henry's spectacular progress around southern England with Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. It is also the platinum jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II, who in 2019 (in accord with her royal duties) carried out a staggering 295 public engagements around the country. It is an opportune moment not only to assess Tudor royal progresses, but to reflect on what monarchy and its visibility means in the 21st century.In a personal monarchy, a fundamental questions was the location of the king at any one time, which surprisingly we do not always know for Henry VIII. Building on a one-year AHRC Research Network, Henry VIII on Tour brings together a cross-disciplinary team of scholars and technical specialists from both academic and heritage sectors, who will use close study of archival sources, architecture, archaeology, music and material culture to inform a reconceptualisation of Henry VIII's progresses. We will focus on four key themes: logistics, kingship/queenship, performance, and legacy. By mapping all known progress venues and charting changes in duration, regional location and accommodation through successive phases of the reign, our project establishes a full itinerary for Henry VIII for the first time, significantly enhancing historians' understanding of the purpose of royal progresses and their impact on 16th century political and religious culture. Examining specific progresses from each decade (1511, 1522, 1535 and 1541) we will determine how they can be understood and reinterpreted within the context of the ideals and challenges of statecraft in the early modern period. Wherever possible we consider queenship in parallel with kingship, highlighting Henry's queens as independent actors in the performance of progresses, religious devotions and hunting expeditions. We will also explore how the logistics of 'performing' progresses can reveal hidden histories of understudied groups and communities and how progresses themselves fostered dialogue and circulation of ideas, news, skills, architectural styles and musical repertoire in the localities.This project comes at a time when heritage organisations, museums and galleries are facing financial difficulties and a crisis of identity following prolonged closure and uncertainty as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. We will therefore use Henry VIII's progresses as a means of connecting heritage sites and exploring with our partners, stakeholders and local history focus groups both the challenges for heritage organisations and the ways they can assist in uniting communities. We will engage with modern-day residents of places once visited by Henry VIII in an effort to assess the legacy of royal progresses and provide opportunities for translational impact through co-creation with our heritage partners using local history networks. We will also engage and inspire the interested public through opportunities for participation in community archaeology at Tudor sites and performances of Tudor music in their original settings.The digital legacy of the project (from visualisations of 'lost' sites to mobile-enabled progress trails) makes available a remarkable resource for study of Tudor history for all audiences. Henry VIII on Tour will re-engage and inspire educators in schools and museums to use the Tudors across the curriculum through new ways of approaching and discovering the past. We will use digital creativity to bring both landscapes and buildings to life, demonstrating how a coming together of digital heritage and archival research can tell new stories, pose and answer innovative research questions, and inspire greater curiosity about local places.