{"id":551543,"date":"2026-04-26T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551543\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:34:09","slug":"rare-gown-dating-back-to-1600s-to-go-on-display-at-hardwick-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551543\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare gown dating back to 1600s to go on display at Hardwick Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the exhibition, there will also be a short animated film inspired by the letters Bess wrote and received over the years, which aims to offer more insight into her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The gown was recently returned to Hardwick after undergoing conservation work at the National Trust Conservation Studio on the Blickling Estate in Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams said: &#8220;[The gown] survived thanks to Evelyn, the last Duchess to live at Hardwick, who recognised its significance and took steps to store it away and preserve it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Without her intervention, this piece of history may have been lost forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The gown connects us directly to Bess of Hardwick&#8217;s world and invites us to consider the real Bess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She is often portrayed as a formidable and ambitious woman, but this exhibition reveals far more about the real Bess. It highlights her role as a mother who placed great importance on her family in her life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the exhibition, there will also be a short animated film inspired by the letters Bess wrote and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-551543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}