This is actually something new at Merton: the room where I'm having my class this year. In previous years, I've been in perfectly ordinary classrooms that might be found in any college setting anywhere in the world, but for some reason this year I'm in this beautiful sixteenth century room. (Since we're studying cosmology, maybe the scheduling office had a sense of humor and liked the contrast of viewing Powerpoint slides about black holes and quantum mechanics on a screen with drapes hanging on either side and a marble pedestal on top.)
The room next to this, where the group sitting at high table on a particular night assembles for drinks before dinner, is called the Queen's Room. Henrietta Marie, wife of Charles I, lived in these rooms for several months during the English civil wars in the 1640's.
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