'Ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets' – Julius Caesar, act II, scene 2

Italian knotted lace dated 1575 featuring ‘skeletal’ figures dancing, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (featured in Henschen, M, Boutrup, J & Avén, M – eds (1990) Hemmets Arbets Handarbetslexikon, Malmö: Fogtdal, 9, 14-15)

Four versions of the Henrician lady’s bonnet & frontlet kit which is available with many different frontlet and hair covering options

Historical hatmaker Rachel Frost kindly shared her work-in-progress on a knitted and fulled cap for Simon Russel Beale in the film Firebrand

Ninya and Jane discuss ruffs and their representation in a little-known domestic wall painting called The Prodigal Son in a recording of their online event

Holly Perry (Ninya’s daughter) as a grisly Katherine Howard at Whitby Goth Weekend in 2021 – the event is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year from 1 to 3 November (visit https://thelittleblackalmanac.co.uk/ for more details)

A Henrician lady’s bonnet with a red/gold frontlet and red silk hair covering

A simply decorated French hood constructed in the same way as the one worn by Katherine Howard in her miniature portrait dated about 1540