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The House of Dudley
24 September 2022, 12.00pm
£12.00
The House of Dudley
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The event
Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by their side – or by crushing one beneath their feet.
Join historian Joanne Paul as she tells the story of one of England’s noble houses, whose members competed in the murderous game of musical chairs around the English throne. She will consider what it was that caused generations of the same family to undergo such dramatic shifts in fortunes and expose the sheer audacity of this bold and skulduggerous family.
After thriving in the court of Henry VII but falling in popularity under his son Henry VIII, the Dudley’s rose to prominence again in the reign of Edward VI. A failed attempt to advance Lady Jane Grey to the throne led them to lose it all when Mary I came to the throne. Yet once Elizabeth I was on the throne, the family were once again at the centre of power and would do anything to remain there.
The speaker
Joanne Paul is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Sussex. A BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods.
She has written for 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. The House of Dudley is her acclaimed first book.
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