Hats off to the Thomas Wolsey 550 project
Our public programme concludes after 550 days – and we celebrate new grant funding for our education work…
Wolsey’s Big Huzzah!
Ipswich Town Centre to ring out in Tudor song as hundreds of children parade in Wolsey’s Big Huzzah!
Celebrating Wolsey with a premiere performance
Join Ipswich Choral Society for a double anniversary celebration marking 550 years since the birth of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and 200 years since Ipswich Choral Society was formed.
Project update
Project Director, Kath Cockshaw, provides a round up of the Wolsey 550 project activity so far…
Have you seen the Wolsey’s Ipswich Exhibition yet?
If you are planning to join the thousands of people who have flocked to see the temporary Wolsey’s Ipswich exhibition at The Hold, please don’t delay as the exhibition will be drawing to a close on 29th October.
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The story behind Cardinal Wolsey’s Hat currently on show in The Hold
Why Wolsey’s hat was granted its own carriage Did you know that one of the precious artifacts included in the current exhibition, Wolsey’s Ipswich, being held at Suffolk Archives’ The Hold, is the actual hat worn by Thomas Wolsey over 500 years ago? At the time, Wolsey’s treasured Cardinal’s hat – a red, wide-brimmed ‘galero’
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Wolsey 550 anniversary celebrated in Yorkshire
Ipswich choir invited to sing in York Minster Celebrations to mark the 550th anniversary of the birth of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in Ipswich temporarily moved to Yorkshire recently with the choir from the town’s St Mary le Tower church invited to take part in a special service in York Minster where Wolsey was Archbishop back
Ipswich represented at a very special Italian procession
Cardinal Wolsey visits Nettuno and a sacred shrine with Suffolk connections The Thomas Wolsey 550 Project is very lucky to have the support of one of the UK’s best Cardinal Wolsey re-enactors – Phil Roberts. Not only does Phil bear a striking resemblance to the great man himself but years of dedicated research means he
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