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Date: Saturday 26 April 2025, 11:30-12:30
Venue: Augustine House | AHg.27
War & Politics
Tickets: £10/person per event in person
Discount: for those buying 10 or more tickets in one transaction, then each ticket is £8/person per event in person. Student ticket (does not apply to the Archives, Hospital or Church), £2/person/per event with a max of 5% for any of the talks.
Dr Joanne Paul
Joanne Paul is an award-winning historian, broadcaster and writer with a passion for sharing her research on Renaissance and Tudor history. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex and a 2017 AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker. She has published in the Cambridge University Press 'Ideas in Context' series and has been widely praised for her work on Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. Her first trade book, The House of Dudley, was published to wide acclaim in 2022. Her forthcoming biography of More will be published by Michael Joseph (Penguin) in 2025.
About the event
There are few figures in English history as divisive as Thomas More; he is worshipped as a saint and reviled as a persecutor. This talk by Joanne Paul – author of a forthcoming biography of More – will present new evidence about More’s upbringing, court connections and political beliefs, with the aim of re-evaluating his divided legacy. Participants will also be given a new perspective on More’s fall - his trial and execution at the hands of the king he served, Henry VIII. Separating myth from solid evidence, the talk will seek to discover the heart and mind of the historic More.
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