Hilary Mantel in conversation: British Library, 27th May 2009

I've just read Hilary Mantel's latest novel, Wolf Hall, and enjoyed it very much: she makes Thomas Cromwell a sympathetic character despite his disinclination to talk about, or especially like, himself. This event saw her reading from the novel, and in conversation with Erica Wagner (Literary Editor of The Times), and historian Derek Wilson.

transcript of notes, not necessarily complete or coherent )
In Armour Complete -- or not Ian Kelly, author of biographies of Casanova and Beau Brummell, speaking at the Royal College of Surgeons, 23.4.09

Kelly: "I'm here to do down Starkey's current theory that we're undergoing a feminisation of history." He's thoroughly researched both his subjects, from asylum records to the Venetian Inquisition to the original MS of Casanova's memoirs, and he conveyed that sense of the thrill of discovery.

cut for mildly NSFW sex and contraception stuff, also nuns )

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