From Parchment to PDF: Digital Preservation at the Middle Temple
Today, you’re reading the Middle Templar magazine online, on a computer, tablet, or smartphone –...
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Category: History 2021
‘All Gentlemen of this House Shall Depart’ – Early Modern Lockdowns at the Middle Temple
While the Great Plague of 1665-66 is the most well-known outbreak of yersinia pestis to have ravaged London since the Black Death in 1348, the disease was endemic in the city throughout the 16th and...
Read MoreBonfires, Banners & Beyond – The Restoration and the Inn
‘Shouting with inexpressible joy; the ways strew’d with flowers, the bells ringing, the Streetes hung with tapissry’, wrote Middle Templar John Evelyn of the mood in London on Tuesday 29 May 1660. After 11...
Read MoreBaron Kenyon (1732-1802): An Outsider who Reached the Summit of his Profession in the Age of Pitt the Younger
In our Parliament Chamber there hangs several portraits whose artists stood in the highest rank. One of them is that of Lloyd Kenyon, later 1st Baron Kenyon (1732-1802), the work of two of our finest portraitists of the late...
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The History of Sports at The Middle Temple
Sport is an incredibly popular past time, and this is no exception for members and students of the...
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Conservation at the Inn
With the Hall and Bench Apartments free of engagements earlier this year, it was a good...
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