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provide a platform for our academic projects, programmes and partnerships. <span>The research we do at Historic Royal Palaces underpins everything about <a data-id="1329" href="/web/20210619190143/https://www.hrp.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/" title="Who we are">who we are and what we do.</a><span> </span></span></p> </div> </div> <div class="g-unit g-unit--12@s g-unit--4@m g-unit--4@l"> <div class="boxin bg-primary"> <h2>Our vision</h2> <p>Our vision is to bring to life our palaces, their collections, landscapes and communities by exploring new perspectives and techniques and developing innovative engagement methodologies.<span> </span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="bg-slice bg-slice--grey faqs"> <div class="wrapper "> <div class="section-header"> <h2 class="section-header__title">Our priority research areas</h2> </div> <div class="grid grid--spaced "> <div class="g-unit g-unit--12@s g-unit--8@m g-unit--8@l"> <div class="boxin bg-primary"> <p>We have developed a number of priority research areas to support our work as an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210619190143/http://ahrc-iroc.org/">Independent Research Organisation </a>and our collaborative research partnerships:</p> <ul> <li>Memory: endeavouring to recover, reconstruct and interpret past events.</li> <li>Diversity: <span>diverse and unspoken voices</span>, communities and experiences.</li> <li>Technology: experimenting with new techniques to further our understanding and presentation of our heritage.</li> <li>Mobility and Migration: movement of people, objects and images.</li> <li>Identities: discovering new histories of people and places.</li> <li>Heritage Management and Practice: heritage experiences past and present, emotional engagement and digital technology.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="bg-slice bg-slice--grey faqs"> <div class="wrapper "> <div class="section-header"> <h2 class="section-header__title">Conferences</h2> </div> 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With keynote speakers Simon Thurley, Glenn Richardson and Tracy Borman (Introduction), we will explore the visual, cultural and political impact of royal progresses, including the diplomatic meeting at the Field of Cloth of Gold.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210619190143/https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/henry-viii-on-tour-palaces-progresses-and-panache-tickets-148588098001" class="btn btn--solid btn--extralarge" target="_top"><span class="btn__text btn__text--arrow">Register</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="bg-slice bg-slice--grey faqs"> <div class="wrapper "> <div class="section-header"> <h2 class="section-header__title">Projects</h2> </div> <div class="grid grid--spaced "> <div class="g-unit g-unit--12@s g-unit--8@m g-unit--8@l"> <div class="boxin bg-primary"> <h2>Lest We Forget: Poppies and Public Commemoration</h2> <p><span>'Lest we forget' explores the ways in which the public commemorated the First World War through a case study of ‘<em>Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red</em>’- an art installation of over 800,000 ceramic poppies, planted in the Tower of London moat in 2014.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <a href="/web/20210619190143/https://www.hrp.org.uk/about-us/research/lest-we-forget-poppies-and-public-commemoration/" class="btn btn--solid btn--extralarge" target="_top"><span class="btn__text btn__text--arrow">Lest We Forget</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="bg-slice bg-slice--grey faqs"> <div class="wrapper "> <div class="grid grid--spaced "> <div class="g-unit g-unit--12@s g-unit--8@m g-unit--8@l"> <div class="boxin bg-primary"> <h2>Portable Palaces: Royal Tents and Timber Lodgings 1509-1603</h2> <p><span>Portable Palaces explores the tent as an important and ubiquitous expression of architecture through a study of the design of the royal tents and associated temporary buildings that were created for the sixteenth-century English court.<span 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