The Legacy of the Mary Rose

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The raising of the Mary Rose 40 years ago - along with some 19,000 objects which sank with her - has become a great boon to Tudor historians, offering an unrivalled glimpse of life at that time. Additionally sixteenth century attempts to depict the tragedy and efforts to retrieve the ship at the time allow us access into aspects of Tudor life that we would have no other way of knowing.

In the last of her three special episodes on the Mary Rose, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is in Portsmouth to examine what the Mary Rose has revealed to us about life in the Tudor age.

The Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie. It was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:00.0	The sinking of Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose, in July 1545, was a tragic event,
0:12.8	but paradoxically it has become a great boon to those of us who study the tutors.
0:19.1	For when she sank, 19,000 objects sank with her and were preserved in the silt of the
0:25.5	Solaunt. They include musical instruments, leather boots, knit cones, rosary beads, coins,
0:33.7	dice, longbows, cannon, navigational instruments, tankards, candle holders, bellows, mirrors,
0:42.4	and ink pots, and much else besides. The together offer us an unrivaled glimpse of ordinary life
0:50.4	in Tudor England. If that weren't enough, 16th century attempts to depict the tragedy and
0:56.9	Tudor efforts to retrieve the ship also themselves allow us access into aspects of Tudor life
1:03.8	that we would have no other way of recovering. In the third of our specials on the Mary Rose,
1:11.3	today we examine what she can tell us about life in the Tudor era.
1:24.3	We begin with Dr. Dominic Fontana, formerly senior lecturer in geography at the University of
1:29.9	Portsmouth and now a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Geographical Society.
1:36.2	Dr. Fontana and I are looking at a contemporary image of the Mary Rose's sinking,
1:42.2	a picture known as the Caldrey in Graving. Originally part of a set of five, the Caldrey was painted
1:50.4	between 1545 and 1548, the Henry VIII's Courtea, Sir Anthony Brown, and it shows the battle of the
1:58.8	Solent and much about life in Tudor Portsmouth in brilliant microscopic and revealing detail.
2:08.0	First we probably ought to look at Henry himself here on his horse right in centre stage of the
2:14.9	picture and just behind him is Sir Anthony Brown and Sir Anthony was the owner of Caldrey House
2:22.4	between 1543 and his death in 1548 and the original painting from which this engraving was taken
2:31.0	was adorning the dining parlour at Caldrey House. So I think very much Sir Anthony Brown's visual aid
2:39.6	for his storytelling at dinner to tell his dinner guests just how important he was in saving Henry's
2:47.1	kingdom in 1545. And you see he's right behind the king. He was master of the king's horse
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