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November 2021
Facebook Live – Chat with Claire – 26 November
November's Facebook Live event will be taking place on Friday 26th November. This is a one hour live bit of Tudor talk with Claire. No fixed topic, just Claire chatting about what she's been up to and answering members' questions. Here are the times in different time zones. If your time zone isn't listed you can use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html to convert the London time to your zone. London, UK - Friday 26 November at 10pm Madrid, Spain - Friday 26 November…
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Expert Talk – Johanna Strong – Remembering Mary I: Elizabethan and Stuart Reinterpretations
Our December expert speaker is Johanna Strong who is currently doing a PhD on Mary I's legacy, and how her reputation and legacy have been posthumously created and manipulated.
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Expert Talk – Ashley Risk and Laura Loney – A Tudor miniature: Is it Catherine Howard or Anne of Cleves
Our January expert speakers are Ashley Risk and Laura Loney who put their spare time during the global pandemic to good use by researching the miniature painted by Hans Holbein whose sitter has previously been identified as Catherine Howard. Ashley and Laura put forward a compelling argument for re-identifying the sitter as Anne of Cleves and they'll tell us more about their research and conclusion in their talk.
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Expert Talk – Sarah Gristwood – Courtly Love
Historian Sarah Gristwood, author of the recent book "The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty", as well as many other history books, is our February expert speaker. Sarah will be speaking to us on the medieval and Tudor tradition of courtly love, a fascinating topic. She will also be joining us later in the month for a live Q&A session.
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Expert Talk – Adam Pennington – The Rise and Fall of the Pole Family
Our March expert speaker is Adam Pennington of The Tudor Chest blog and social media pages. Adam is currently writing a book on that famous and rather tragic Tudor family, the Poles. Find out all about the rise and fall of the Pole family in Adam's expert talk. He'll be joining us later in the month for a live Q& session in our chatroom.
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