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Projecting the Past – putting the men on the Mary Rose

‘War and Peace – life onboard the Mary Rose’, featuring full-sized projections of the crew, allows visitors to see what life was like on board a busy Tudor warship. But how were these films created?

A team from the University of Portsmouth, studying BSc Television and Broadcasting, has produced a documentary featuring the people behind the filming, as well as some of the actors involved.

Have you seen the finished projections? What did you think of them?

Mystery of a Queen

Mystery of a Queen

When the Mary Rose sank in 1545, Henry VIII was married to his sixth wife, Katherine Parr, so why was the symbol of his first wife on a wristguard on board the Mary Rose?

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Talking to Bangalore

The Mary Rose is known internationally, as our Learning Team discovered when they spoke to students from a school in Bangalore…

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HMS Mary Rose (1915)

HMS Mary Rose (1915)

The story of HMS Mary Rose (1915), which shared a similar fate to its Tudor namesake during World War I when it was lost in battle…

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