Rosemary Griggs
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.social
Author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #history #tudor #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
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Tudor England Through Women's Stories with Rosemary Griggs (ep 236)
YouTube video by Carol Ann Lloyd
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I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with Carol Ann Lloyd about Tudor Christmas and my work to bring the stories of less well known women of sixteenth century Devon out of the shadows.
Have a listen here
#tudor
#devon
#historicalfictionauthor
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Have a listen here
#tudor
#devon
#historicalfictionauthor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rfj...
Your Sunday afternoon read — a new post on my Substack. Widows’ garb gave me an important clue. I love it when my interest in costume collides with other research.
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#WomenInHistory #elizabethan #writersresearch
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#WomenInHistory #elizabethan #writersresearch
A Woman’s lot — Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
Elizabeth Champernowne c.1555 -? Wife of Sir Edward Seymour of Berry Pomeroy.
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January 25, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Your Sunday afternoon read — a new post on my Substack. Widows’ garb gave me an important clue. I love it when my interest in costume collides with other research.
rosemarygriggs.substack.com/p/a-womans-l...
#WomenInHistory #elizabethan #writersresearch
rosemarygriggs.substack.com/p/a-womans-l...
#WomenInHistory #elizabethan #writersresearch
January 25, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Brilliant to see our local museum in Newton Abbot featured on BBC.
#museums #devon
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#museums #devon
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Bronze Age urn goes on display in Newton Abbot
The ceramic vessel is loaned from Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery.
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January 25, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Brilliant to see our local museum in Newton Abbot featured on BBC.
#museums #devon
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#museums #devon
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A tiny fragment of medieval glass so high up in a window at St Mary's church, Offwell, Devon, you could easily miss it.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
January 25, 2026 at 9:12 AM
A tiny fragment of medieval glass so high up in a window at St Mary's church, Offwell, Devon, you could easily miss it.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
Thomas Yogge, a merchant, paid for the tower of St Andrew’s church, Plymouth in 1460.
Historic England listing says it’s the largest parish church in Devon.
📷 January 2023
#SteepleSaturday #plymouth
Historic England listing says it’s the largest parish church in Devon.
📷 January 2023
#SteepleSaturday #plymouth
January 24, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Thomas Yogge, a merchant, paid for the tower of St Andrew’s church, Plymouth in 1460.
Historic England listing says it’s the largest parish church in Devon.
📷 January 2023
#SteepleSaturday #plymouth
Historic England listing says it’s the largest parish church in Devon.
📷 January 2023
#SteepleSaturday #plymouth
St Michael’s, Chagford, Devon. The octagonal font was carved from granite by local stonemason, John Aggett, and dedicated to Katherine Hayter-Hames who died less than a year old in 1856.
The carved oak cover was added in 1892.
#FontsonFriday
The carved oak cover was added in 1892.
#FontsonFriday
January 23, 2026 at 8:10 AM
St Michael’s, Chagford, Devon. The octagonal font was carved from granite by local stonemason, John Aggett, and dedicated to Katherine Hayter-Hames who died less than a year old in 1856.
The carved oak cover was added in 1892.
#FontsonFriday
The carved oak cover was added in 1892.
#FontsonFriday
January 22, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The 13th or 14th century doorway at St Mary’s Church, Berry Pomeroy, Devon at the foot of the rendered tower.
The church was rebuilt in the 15th century possibly by Sir Richard de Pomeroy, with later further restorations.
#AdoorableThursdsy
The church was rebuilt in the 15th century possibly by Sir Richard de Pomeroy, with later further restorations.
#AdoorableThursdsy
January 22, 2026 at 8:06 AM
The 13th or 14th century doorway at St Mary’s Church, Berry Pomeroy, Devon at the foot of the rendered tower.
The church was rebuilt in the 15th century possibly by Sir Richard de Pomeroy, with later further restorations.
#AdoorableThursdsy
The church was rebuilt in the 15th century possibly by Sir Richard de Pomeroy, with later further restorations.
#AdoorableThursdsy
January 21, 2026 at 6:40 PM
January 21, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Look out! The fox has grabbed the grey goose by the neck and is away to his den oh. Medieval misericords SS Peter, Paul & Thomas) Bovey Tracey,
#woodcarvingwednesday
#woodensday
#woodcarvingwednesday
#woodensday
January 21, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Look out! The fox has grabbed the grey goose by the neck and is away to his den oh. Medieval misericords SS Peter, Paul & Thomas) Bovey Tracey,
#woodcarvingwednesday
#woodensday
#woodcarvingwednesday
#woodensday
I spotted this fishy sampler at NT Killerton while waiting to see the Red Dress a few weeks ago.
#textiletuesday
#embroidery
#needlework
#textiletuesday
#embroidery
#needlework
January 20, 2026 at 7:50 AM
I spotted this fishy sampler at NT Killerton while waiting to see the Red Dress a few weeks ago.
#textiletuesday
#embroidery
#needlework
#textiletuesday
#embroidery
#needlework
I’ve not been out much lately so here’s a favourite from the archives. The Seymour monument at St Mary’s Church, Berry Pomeroy.
Below the men — Elizabeth Champernowne (Kat Ashley’s niece, Bess in my Dartington novels) and her children.
#MonumentsMonday
Below the men — Elizabeth Champernowne (Kat Ashley’s niece, Bess in my Dartington novels) and her children.
#MonumentsMonday
January 19, 2026 at 7:17 AM
I’ve not been out much lately so here’s a favourite from the archives. The Seymour monument at St Mary’s Church, Berry Pomeroy.
Below the men — Elizabeth Champernowne (Kat Ashley’s niece, Bess in my Dartington novels) and her children.
#MonumentsMonday
Below the men — Elizabeth Champernowne (Kat Ashley’s niece, Bess in my Dartington novels) and her children.
#MonumentsMonday
January 18, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Henry VIII in #stainedglass in Canterbury Cathedral's Chapter House, West Window, dedicated to the memory of Dean Frederic William Farrar (1895-1903) showing figures from the Cathedral's history.
📷from a visit in 2022
#stainedglasssunday #tudor
📷from a visit in 2022
#stainedglasssunday #tudor
January 18, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Henry VIII in #stainedglass in Canterbury Cathedral's Chapter House, West Window, dedicated to the memory of Dean Frederic William Farrar (1895-1903) showing figures from the Cathedral's history.
📷from a visit in 2022
#stainedglasssunday #tudor
📷from a visit in 2022
#stainedglasssunday #tudor
I don’t think anyone guessed that the doors in the photo I shared last week are at Hatfield Old Palace where a reproduction of Elizabeth 1’s stylish signature is on display.
#elizabeth1
#historichouse
#elizabeth1
#historichouse
January 17, 2026 at 8:44 AM
I don’t think anyone guessed that the doors in the photo I shared last week are at Hatfield Old Palace where a reproduction of Elizabeth 1’s stylish signature is on display.
#elizabeth1
#historichouse
#elizabeth1
#historichouse
January 17, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Narcissus bulbocodium— hooped petticoat daffodil— in my Devon garden this morning. An early sign of spring.
#FlowersOnFriday #springisontheway
#FlowersOnFriday #springisontheway
January 16, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Narcissus bulbocodium— hooped petticoat daffodil— in my Devon garden this morning. An early sign of spring.
#FlowersOnFriday #springisontheway
#FlowersOnFriday #springisontheway
I didn’t notice that almost hidden behind (and to the left in the 📷) the 15th century octagonal font at St Eustachius, Tavistock is a 14th century oak iron-bound chest. An excuse for another visit sometime.
#FontsonFriday
#FontsonFriday
January 16, 2026 at 7:18 AM
I didn’t notice that almost hidden behind (and to the left in the 📷) the 15th century octagonal font at St Eustachius, Tavistock is a 14th century oak iron-bound chest. An excuse for another visit sometime.
#FontsonFriday
#FontsonFriday
Nice to spot my books “out in the wild” at Waterstones Exeter today. Hopefully they’ll restock book 2 soon.
#mybook
#HistoricalFiction
#Exeter
#mybook
#HistoricalFiction
#Exeter
January 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Nice to spot my books “out in the wild” at Waterstones Exeter today. Hopefully they’ll restock book 2 soon.
#mybook
#HistoricalFiction
#Exeter
#mybook
#HistoricalFiction
#Exeter
I’m looking back on a brilliant research visit last year.
Doors set in red brick walls. Where was I?
#AdoorableThursdsy
#ThrowbackThursday
Doors set in red brick walls. Where was I?
#AdoorableThursdsy
#ThrowbackThursday
January 15, 2026 at 7:17 AM
I’m looking back on a brilliant research visit last year.
Doors set in red brick walls. Where was I?
#AdoorableThursdsy
#ThrowbackThursday
Doors set in red brick walls. Where was I?
#AdoorableThursdsy
#ThrowbackThursday
January 14, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Recycling in action! Wainscot panels from a former rood screen(15th or 16th century) repurposed in the pulpit St George’s, Modbury, Devon.
📷from 2023 when work was under way to install underfloor heating.
#woodensday
#recycling
📷from 2023 when work was under way to install underfloor heating.
#woodensday
#recycling
January 14, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Recycling in action! Wainscot panels from a former rood screen(15th or 16th century) repurposed in the pulpit St George’s, Modbury, Devon.
📷from 2023 when work was under way to install underfloor heating.
#woodensday
#recycling
📷from 2023 when work was under way to install underfloor heating.
#woodensday
#recycling
I was busy editing yesterday and forgot about Plough Monday! The start of the agricultural year when everyone got back to work after the Christmas festivities. This window is at St Mary’s Berry Pomeroy, Devon.
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
January 13, 2026 at 7:55 AM
I was busy editing yesterday and forgot about Plough Monday! The start of the agricultural year when everyone got back to work after the Christmas festivities. This window is at St Mary’s Berry Pomeroy, Devon.
#PloughMonday #stainedglass
#PloughMonday #stainedglass