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March 2021
Expert Talk – Phil Downing – The Darker Side of the Elizabethan Period
March's expert speaker, Phil Downing of Harvington Hall, introduces us to the darker side of Elizabeth I's reign and shares with us the surviving Elizabethan priest holes of Harvington Hall.
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Expert Talk – Nicola Tallis – Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort
April's expert speaker is historian, Dr Nicola Tallis, author of Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort. The Tudor matriarch is often neglected, so it'll be wonderful to hear more about her from Nicola.
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Expert talk – Lucy Churchill – The Anne Boleyn Medal
Our May expert speaker, stonecarver Lucy Churchill, will be talking to us about her research into the surviving 1534 Anne Boleyn medal, one of the only contemporary images we have of Anne Boleyn, and how she went about recreating it.
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Expert talk – Gareth Russell – The Men in Catherine Howard’s Life: The Musician, the Pirate, the King, and the Rake
June's expert speaker is historian Gareth Russell, whose book on Queen Catherine Howard, Young and Damned and Fair, is the very best book on Catherine available. Gareth will be introducing us to the men Catherine was involved with: Henry Manox, Francis Dereham, Henry VIII and Thomas Culpeper, and telling us more about her relationships with them.
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