Program

Day 1 – Saturday, June 22, 2024
8.30 amDoors open – Tea and Coffee
9.15 amWelcome and introductions with David Holland
9.30 amProfessor Diarmaid MacCulloch
Revisiting the Thomas Cromwell of history.
10.15 amDr Lauren MacKay
Tangled Alliances: Cromwell’s political
relationships.
11.00 amBreak
11.30 amBen Miles
Translating Hilary’s Wolf Hall Trilogy to the stage.
(Readings with Aurora Dawson-Hunte)
12.15 pmPanel: Hilary and the Tudor Cult
Rebecca Larson with Dr Lauren MacKay, Dr Elizabeth Norton,
and Melanie Taylor.
12.45 pmLunch
1.15 pmLunchtime performance with Rosemary Griggs
Tudor fashion and Henry’s Queens.
2.00 pmPanel: Hilary’s Historical Legacy
Dr Owen Emmerson with Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch,
Dr Lauren Mackay and Dr Elizabeth Norton.
2.45 pmNicholas Pearson and Bill Hamilton
Working with Hilary.
3.30 pmBreak
4.00 pmAurora Dawson Hunte
Ghosts, spirits and muses: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall
on stage.
4.45 pmPanel: The Wolf Hall Picture Book
George Miles, with Ben Miles and Nicholas Pearson.
5.30 pmEnd / Social time
6.00 pmDoors close
Day 2 – Sunday, June 23, 2024
8.30 amDoors open – Tea and Coffee
9.15 amWelcome and introductions with David Holland
9.30 amDr Elizabeth Norton
Jane Seymour and Hilary’s other Tudor Women
10.15 amDr Owen Emmerson with Melanie V. Taylor
Holbein and Cromwell’s Book of Hours
11.00 amBreak
11.30 amEdmund Gordon
Reflections on Hilary’s literary style
through her varied body of work.
12.10 pmPanel: Hilary – Wolf Hall and The Reith Lectures
David Holland with Bill Hamilton with Nicholas Pearson.
12.50 pmLunch
1.15 pmLunchtime performance with Bob Whitley
Anne Boleyn – Wolf at the Door.
2.00 pmPanel: The Exeter Conspiracy in
The Mirror and The Light
Simon Haisell with Charlie Courtenay (Earl of Devon), and Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch.
2.45 pmReflections on Hilary from the Huntington Library
A video interview with Mary Robertson and Sue Hodson.
3.15 pmBreak
4.00 pmThe Last Word – A video montage of interviews with Hilary Mantel
4.15 pmClosing remarks
Nicholas Pearson and David Holland
4.30 pmEnd / Social time
5.00 pmDoors close