Chloë R McKenzie

@chloermckenzie.bsky.social

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Assistant Prof. in Medieval History @northeasternu.bsky.social (NU London) | Visiting Fellow at CMRC @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Book on Ladies of the Garter

Art installation of ceramic red poppies, protruding from the water, as though pouring through the Traitor’s Gate at the Tower of London. Photo taken at sunset on 20 June - the warm evening light is shown peaking through the gate.
List of contributors: Dr Paul Dryburgh, Dr Kit Heyam, Kathryn Warner and Dr Chloe McKenzie
Illustration showing a graduation ceremony, with speaker addressing graduates: “Let the example of my fluke success guide nearly all of you to crushing disappointment”.
A larger than life portrait of Richard II, known as the Westminster Portrait. Believed to date from 1390s, it now hangs in the nave at Westminster Abbey
Image shows Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park, Chicago on a bright spring morning
A red brick house with black oval plaque with white text reading: Edward A. Stroud. Steward. 2nd class aboard the Titanic who perished in the 1912 disaster, lived here.
Image of grave stone of William Alfred Jeffery, who lost his life on 15 April 1912, with the sinking of the Titanic, aged just 28. “Thy will be done”
Image shows Sir Nigel Loring, Garter Knight, in white Garter robes with blue garters, red hood and shoes, from the St Albans book of Benefactors
Image shows Edward, Prince of Wales, aka the Black Prince, in armour, surcoat and Garter Mantle, from the Bruges Garter book (fifteenth century)
Image shows King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Garter regalia, taking part in the annual Garter Day celebration at Windsor.
Manuscript illumination of Joan of Kent, Princess of Wales, from the St Alban’s Book of Benefactors