Book now to experience the literary event of the year in celebration of Dame Hilary Mantel’s multi-award winning Wolf Hall Trilogy.
Join a weekend of personal tributes, expert talks, celebrity readings, interactive workshops, literary and historical reviews, and good food in the enchanting period location of Cadhay House, East Devon; a favourite location of Hilary’s close to her home.
Location:
Cadhay House, Devon, UK.
Date:
Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June 2024
A unique and immersive event where many of Hilary’s friends and colleagues will honour her memory and share their experiences in helping to bring her literary genius to the world, through books, stage and screen. Historical experts will shed additional light on the turbulent world of Thomas Cromwell and literary experts will explore Hilary’s imaginary interpretation of Cromwell that works its magic on her readers.
This is a limited capacity event – so make sure you book early to secure a place.
Speakers
Ben Miles
Star of stage, screen, and TV; Ben played Thomas Cromwell in the RSC stage production of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, and later reprised that role in the staging of The Mirror And The Light in 2021.
Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch
Award winning author of a recent biography of Thomas Cromwell, A Life; Diarmaid is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, and TV presenter.
Dr. Lauren Mackay
Author, TV presenter and Tudor history expert; Lauren is the author of The Wolf Hall Companion, an historical companion to Hilary Mantel’s critically acclaimed Wolf Hall trilogy.
Dr. Elizabeth Norton
Tudor, mediaeval and royal historian, writer, broadcaster and consultant; Elizabeth is the author of twelve acclaimed books specialising in the queens of England and the Tudor period.
Nicholas Pearson
Nicolas edited and published Hilary Mantel for nearly 20 years, including her twice Man Booker Prizewinning Wolf Hall trilogy, and was also Doris Lessing’s editor for the last years of her writing life.
Dr Owen Emmerson
A social and cultural historian, author of four books, and expert contributor to a number of television documentaries. For six years, he has worked as Castle Historian and Assistant Curator at the stunning Hever Castle in Kent.
Aurora Dawson-Hunte
Aurora is a young actor and screenwriter who made her international stage debut as Elizabeth Seymour in Hilary’s stage adaption of The Mirror and The Light.
Edmund Gordon
Edmund is an award-winning author, critic, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at King’s College London, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His first book, The Invention of Angela Carter received the Somerset Maugham Award.
Charlie Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon
Charlie lives at Powderham Castle, Devon, which has been the Courtenay family home since 1390. In 2015, he succeeded his father to the ancient Earldom of Devon, and later took a seat in the House of Lords as an active and thoroughly modern hereditary peer.
Simon Haisell
Simon is a writer and creator of Footnotes and Tangents, an online literary newsletter and book group.
This year, he is hosting Wolf Crawl, a slow read of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy with a global community of several thousand readers. In weekly discussion posts, he examines the historical detail and imaginative depth of Mantel’s fiction.
And in a special series called The Haunting of Wolf Hall, he creatively explores spectral themes in the Cromwell books.
Lunchtime Performances
Rosemary Griggs
Tudor Fashion Icons: Exploring the influence of Henry’s queen’s on sixteenth century women’s fashion Read more…
Bob Whitley
Inspired by the images and characters of the Tudor court of Henry VIII, brought to life by Hilary Mantel in Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. Bob will perform a selection of songs within the historic context highlighting the rise and fall of Henry’s most famous queen. Read more…
Hilary Mantel’s legacy
The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for the Bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell. Read more…
Highlights
Exciting celebrity speakers and special lunchtime performance seminars. Full program here.
Podcasts
We are excited to announce the launch of The Wolf Hall Weekend Podcast, featuring interviews with experts and celebrities who will be appearing at the Wolf Hall Weekend event. In these interviews we will be exploring each speaker’s personal and professional interest in Hilary’s work and discover more about their upcoming contribution to the event celebrating the award winning Wolf Hall Trilogy by Dame Hilary Mantel in June 2024.
Listen and subscribe here: https://wolfhallweekendpodcast.buzzsprout.com/share