Rosemary Griggs is an author, researcher, seamstress and popular West Country speaker. She has been researching Devon’s sixteenth century history for years, focussing on one well-connected family, the Champernownes.

Alongside her writing Rosemary researches, creates and wears sixteenth-century clothing, and brings the past to life through a unique blend of theatre, history and re-enactment. Her appearances and talks for museums and community groups all over the West Country draw on her extensive research into sixteenth-century Devon, Tudor life and Tudor dress.