There's a popular myth that people were considerably smaller in the past, varying from being about a foot shorter than the modern average to practically hobbit-sized!

Back in 2010, the Mary Rose Museum was still based in an old boathouse near the entrance to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, the ship was off display while work took place on our current museum, and we’d recently had Hatch, the dog recovered from the Mary Rose, mounted. 

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Everybody goes to the toilet, even in Tudor times, but what facilities were available on the Mary Rose?

Hello, I’m Johanna, one of the conservators at the Mary Rose Trust, and I’ll be taking you through some of the work that is happening behind the scenes at the museum. This particular post will cover a set of objects I have devoted a fair bit of my time here...

While it has become standard to call the look-out point usually located at the top of a mast a “Crow’s Nest”, the term is actually quite specific.

Most of you reading this should be aware that the Mary Rose was built for Henry VIII, and that’s why he features so heavily in our posters on railway stations across the UK, but what about the crew? Who were they, and why aren’t their names more prominent in the...