ABSTRACT

Imagine walking around a Tudor maze with tall green hedges and narrow paths when your gaze is pulled to an object lying on the ground. As you bend down to pick up a golden crown you are transported to a meeting with King Henry VII who tells you about himself and his successful battles before sending you back to the maze. You continue walking, passing objects such as drums and stocks and pictures of people pinned on the hedges and every time you get curious and touch one of them, you are played Elizabethan music and shown the instruments, or find yourself in the crowd watching a gory beheading, or are introduced to Catherine of Aragon or Sir Walter Raleigh and told their stories before being returned, again trying to find your way around the maze. And then, as is so typical of mazes, you come to a dead end. There is a loud boom which startles you and you do not know where to go, but on a signpost there is a map of the whole maze, which lets you work out where you are.