Just to let you know the details of this month's live chats. Our informal chat on the topic of Tudor life will take place on Saturday 13th October and our expert live chat with historian and author Lauren Mackay will take place on Friday 26th October.
Both chats will be an hour long and will take place in the Tudor Society chatroom at https://www.tudorsociety.com/chatroom/.
As I said, our informal live chat is on Tudor life, which is a huge topic so I'm sure we'll find plenty to talk about. We can share what we know about life in Tudor times, pose questions to each other, share book recommendations... anything Tudor life orientated. There won't be an expert to grill, this will be an hour for us all to discuss the subject.
Here are the times in different time zones:
- London, UK - Saturday 13th October at 11pm
- Madrid, Spain - Sunday 14th October at 12am
- New York, USA - Saturday 13th October at 6pm
- Los Angeles, USA - Saturday 13th October at 3pm
- Sydney, Australia - Sunday 14th October at 9am
- Adelaide, Australia - Sunday 14th October at 8.30am
Our October guest speaker is Lauren Mackay. Her talk coincides with the publication of her new book, Among the Wolves of Court, which is about Thomas Boleyn and his son, George Boleyn. Lauren's talk is also on these two men. If you haven't seen it then you can catch it at https://www.tudorsociety.com/expert-talk-thomas-and-george-boleyn-lauren-mackay/. Lauren will be joining us in the chatroom on Friday 26th October to answer your questions on her talk, her books and her research. We'll be giving away a copy of her new book to one lucky chat participant.
Here are the times in different time zones:
- London, UK - Friday 26th October at 11pm
- Madrid, Spain - Saturday 27th October at 12am
- New York, USA - Friday 26th October at 6pm
- Los Angeles, USA - Friday 26th October at 3pm
- Sydney, Australia - Saturday 27th October at 9am
- Adelaide, Australia - Saturday 27th October at 8.30am
Yahoo!!!!!! Looking forward Laurens talk immensely and her book on Thomas and George looks supreme. The video was very informative and revealed a number of points I didn’t realise before. His first embassy in the Netherlands was far more important than I realised as a sole ambassador. The way the King relied on his detailed accounts in France is very telling, like Chapuys was very detailed to his friends and the Emperor (Lauren’s other book) and George was a talented but inexperienced Ambassador, who unfortunately does not seem to have been taken quite as seriously as his father. Perhaps his age, youth was a factor as you probably were not acceptable as mature until well into your thirties or even later. I love the title Among the Wolves of Court as it was a bit like that and also being in the lion’s den. A wolf of course is not a lone predictor, but a pack animal with strict hierarchical interactions. The Court had strict ways of doing things, who came into see the King, when and how and who dressed him, when to eat, who bowed first, who dressed in what clothing and so on. If you rose to the Privy Chamber or Council you made it but it was very competitive and you needed to have the right connections, family and be noted as talented by the King. Among the Wolves of Court indeed.
Super excited for both! 🙂
Sounds interesting , I’ll try my best to be there