Tracy Borman OBE
Tracy is Chief Historian at Historic Royal Palaces and a best-selling author and broadcaster – including The Story of The Tower of London, and Thomas Cromwell: The untold story of Henry VIII’s most faithful servant.
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.
Professor 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.
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.
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.
Dr. Miranda Malins
Historian, author and podcaster; Miranda is the author of The House of Cromwell, a history of the Cromwell family that brings together Thomas and his great-great-great nephew Oliver Cromwell for the first time.
George Miles
Lecturer and photographer, George created, in collaboration with his brother Ben Miles and Hilary Mantel, The Wolf Hall Picture Book, which is a psycho-biography of the life of Thomas Cromwell. The book combines colour photographs with commentary and extracts from The Wolf Hall Trilogy, some of them previously unpublished. It also reveals a world that is shadowy, frightening, sometimes whimsical – a portrait of a country in conversation with its past. George will be discussing with Ben the process of working closely on this project with Hilary.
Dr. Lucie Bea Dutton
A textile artist and scholar who produces stitched interpretations of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy. She was co-presenter of the 2024 Wolf Hall Weekend, and has presented her work in various forums, including the Tudor House, Worcester; the Quilters’ Guild; the University of Brighton; and a Huntington Library event in 2021, the archival home of Hilary’s work. Hilary engaged with Lucie about her stitching project and wrote, ‘It means a great deal to me, to have called and be answered. I am in awe of your process. I cannot really sew’. Lucie’s work will be on display during the weekend. See more about Lucie and her stitching project.
Simon Haisell
Simon is a writer and creator of Footnotes and Tangents, an online literary newsletter and book group.
He hosts Wolf Crawl, a year-long 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. The posts are also released as a podcast.
Alfred Hawkins
Alfred Hawkins is a historian, buildings archaeologist, curator, and broadcaster with a decade of experience working in the commercial archaeology, heritage, and museum sectors. As Curator of Historic Buildings for HM Tower of London and the Banqueting House, Whitehall (Historic Royal Palaces) and a Cathedral Archaeologist (Portsmouth Cathedral), he helps to conserve, research, and share the histories of some of England’s most important sites.