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Suzannah Lipscomb in conversation
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
£15
Tudor historian Suzannah Lipscomb explores the historiography of Henry VIII’s Queens, offering an engaging and sensitive critique of the varying perspectives that have been applied to their biographies over the centuries since their deaths.
Considering the women’s afterlives, the popularity of this subject amongst the British public and historians alike, the conversation will also provide a chance to reflect on the continued need for feminist re-examinations of this period.
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2024-09-06 19:002024-09-06 19:00Europe/LondonSuzannah Lipscomb in conversationTudor historian Suzannah Lipscomb explores the historiography of Henry VIII’s Queens.
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2024/09/06/suzannah-lipscomb-in-conversation-385156National Portrait Gallery,St Martin's Place, London,London,
Sarah Gristwood follows the passage of power from Isabella of Castile through Anne Boleyn and on to Elizabeth I and Jeanne d’Albret, heroine of the Protestant Reformation.
In this lecture, Nicola Clark explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting, revealing the secrets of recruitment, costume, what they ate, where (and with whom) they slept.
This panel discussion will explore different perspectives on the experience of adapting the biographies of Queens for storytelling in musicals, operas and plays, novels, film and television.