Time for another round-up of upcoming books, lectures, and exhibitions!
I know I’ve already talked about it several times, but it’s not very often that I get to be excited about an exhibition that comes to my own hometown! Yes, finally, The King James Bible: Its History and Influence opens on February 28 at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. I’m curious to see which pre-KJB works they have on display, since I know the HRC holds some and I believe some from the Folger and the Bodleian are part of the exhibition. I plan to sneak over on my lunch break a couple of times over the next few months. 🙂
Sorry for the short notice on these lectures… especially since the second appears to be sold out!
Sarah Gristwood will be speaking on “Conspiracy theories and castle secrets” at Dover Castle on February 29. Sounds like fun!
David Starkey will be closing out the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts exhibition with a talk on New Learning out of “Old Books: Henry VIII and the Re-Invention of the Royal Library” at the British Library on March 9. (As I mentioned above, this even seems to already be sold out. Hopefully the BL will put it out as a video or podcast, as they occasionally do with other talks.)
An update on a few past books – Thomas Penn’s Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England will be out in the US on March 6 and both David Loades’ The Boleyns: The Rise & Fall of a Tudor Family and Elizabeth Norton’s Bessie Blount: The King’s Mistress are due out sometime in March in the US.
A couple of times I’ve had an idea for a book, only to be irked to find out that someone has already written or is writing something similar. In this case, any annoyance passed quickly when I knew it was being written by someone who would write a much better book! Suzannah Lipscomb’s latest A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England is out on March 15 in the UK and in print on April 24 in the US (the US Kindle edition is linked below and is supposed to be out on the same day as the UK release).
David Loades’ latest book The Tudors: History of a Dynasty us due out on March 1 in the UK and May 10 in the US.
Patrick Williams’ Catherine of Aragon: A Life is due out sometime in March in the US and June 1 in the UK.
