Maker & Faker of 'Ancient Tudor Relics'

A free talk at Chetham's Library, as part of a new Tudor-themed exhibition

This talk explores the work of George Shaw (181076), an architect-antiquary from Uppermill who came across Henry VIIs and Elizabeth of York's marriage bed in 1830s Staffordshire.

Using it as the fountainhead for a raft of daring forgeries sold to Northern aristocrats a decade later, Dr Lindfield relates Shaws strait-laced historicising 1847 work at Chethams with this Tudor bed and his broader Tudor-revival fakery.