Wallpaper - an everyday discovery?

Schedule

Thu Sep 17 2026 at 10:00 am to 03:30 pm

UTC+01:00
Location

Exhibition Room, Christ's College Cambridge | Cambridge, EN

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A display featuring fragments of Christ's 16th-century wallpaper which was discovered by builders renovating the Master's Lodge in 1911.
About this Event

These fragments are believed to be the among the oldest known printed wallpaper fragments. The fragments date from around the time of the College's foundation by Lady Margaret Beaufort in 1505, because the design is made on dateable printer's waste including a royal proclamation announcing the accession of King Henry VIII in 1509.

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Exhibition Room, Christ's College Cambridge, Saint Andrew's Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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