As Midsummer draws near, Mistress Agnes at Mary Arden’s Farm takes a look at how the Tudor vegetable patch is faring and shares her recipes of the month.
By mid-March the gardens were blooming with daffodils. High winds blasted, twisting petals (and umbrellas) inside and out. Many flowering bulbs fell to the ground, only to bounce upright the following day – and all before the swallows appeared.
Read about how George Williams appropriated images to illustrate his imagined vision of the world of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, as Williams imagined it