Elizabeth I Slept Here: Longleat House

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Queen Elizabeth I’s travels round England - known as ‘progresses’ - were never a quick day-trip or city break. They involved scores of attendants, hundreds of carts of luggage, and lasted around 50 days each. Exactly 450 years ago, she went on one of the greatest progresses of her reign to the West Country. Among the places she stayed was Longleat House in Wiltshire, today best known as a safari park. It’s currently hosting a special exhibition to mark the anniversary of the royal visit.

In this episode, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more from Longleat's archivist Emma Challinor and curator Dr. James Ford.

Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice Smith and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Professor Suzanne Ellipscombe, and welcome to not just the Tudors from History Hit,
0:07.0	the podcast in which we explore everything from Anne Berlin to the Aztecs,
0:11.0	from Holbine to the Huguenoes, from Shakespeare to Summarise.
0:17.0	Relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage, and witchcraft.
0:21.0	Not in other words, just the the tutors but most definitely also the tutors.
0:38.8	Like many of us in the summer Queen Elizabeth the first liked to travel and most of the time she stayed at a house that was not her own but that's pretty much where the similarities end.
0:44.0	Most of her progresses, as they were called, lasted around 50 days, and she carried with her almost
0:49.3	literally everything including the kitchen sink.
0:51.6	A Swiss man, Thomas Platter, traveling in England in
0:54.0	1599 reported since the Queen recently progressed from Hampton Court to
0:58.3	non-such with some 300 carts of bag and baggage as is her custom, the tapestries and all the other items still hung in the apartments, for the latter contains such elegant tapestry of good gold, silver and pure silk that the like is nowhere to be found in such quantity in one place.
1:14.4	This accords with an account by Frederick Duke of Wittenberg seven years earlier
1:18.8	that also noted she travelled with that But she did move about a lot. Some 420 of her subjects hosted their monarch for a night or more over her rain.
1:38.0	It has been calculated, which is why so many places can rightly claim Elizabeth first slept here.
1:44.0	Four hundred and fifty years ago this year Elizabeth went on one of the greatest
1:48.9	progresses of her reign to the west country. Among the places she stayed was Longleat House in Wiltshire.
1:56.0	Probably best known to many as a safari park, but at its heart is an Elizabethan Prodigy house. At Longmeat until the 3rd of November is a special exhibition
2:05.3	showcasing original documents and artifacts to mark the 450th anniversary of that royal visit.
2:12.0	I recently spoke to Long leaps archivist Emma Shalinor and
2:15.8	curator Dr James Ford for an upcoming series on channel for The Royals the History of Scandals
2:21.1	and I thought I had to get them on the pod to tell us all about it.
2:24.4	I'm Professor Suzanne Lipscomb and you're listening to not just the tutors from History Hit.
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