by Meryl Faiers, 20 April 2026 Evidence of the lives of non-elite women is often fragmentary and frequently found in administrative records. The first stage of thinking about the experiences of someone like Rebecca Edwards Heminges is to comb the archives to assemble a timeline of her documented life. Meryl Faiers has compiled a narrative of what we know so far about the wife of actor and grocer John Heminges. Cite: Meryl Faiers, 'Rebecca Heminges (1571-1619)',  The King's Wo

by Meryl Faiers, 14 February 2024 Today, to celebrate her 445th wedding anniversary, the blog looks at the life of a theatrical woman...

by Meryl Faiers, 12 January 2022 King’s Man John Heminges was the father of many daughters, the best known of whom was Thomasine who, as...

by Jodie Smith, 29 December 2022 On this day, a winter Wednesday, 29 December 1627, was buried Henry Condell. Condell was one of the most...

by Meryl Faiers, 22 December 2022 On Tuesday 23 August 1603, Rebecca and John Heminges made the saddest journey for any parent as they...

We are delighted that the King's Women project has been selected as the winner of a competition run by Dr Varsha Panjwani, in association...

The KW team are pleased to have had a panel accepted for this year's BritGrad conference. 'Offstage Players: Discovering the King's...