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From The Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter (Salon) issue 419 (11 December 2018) . . .

Royalpalaces.com

Simon Thurley FSA, one-time Curator of Historic Royal Palaces (1989–97) and Chief Executive of English Heritage (2002–15) . . . has launched Royalpalaces.com, which he describes as

“an encyclopaedic website about British royal residences . . . There is currently nowhere online that people can go to find authoritative information about royal residences from the Saxons to the present, or to find out quickly and easily about royal domestic architectural patronage. RoyalPalaces.com will eventually have nearly 150 place entries covering royal residences from Abingdon to York; most entries have an image and a plan in addition to explanatory text. The website has launched with the first 50 entries. There will also be nearly 30 monarch entries for the greatest British royal architectural patrons—the website launches with ten, including one for Queen Elizabeth II. There will also be podcasts covering various thematic issues. The first podcast deals with the tricky issue of ‘what is a palace?’—and the answer is not ‘a royal residence’. Hopefully of use to the more scholarly-minded will be the bibliographies attached to each entry. All contributions or omissions in these will be gratefully received as will notification of errors spotted.”