Dr Claire Martin: Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns

Sunday 28 April, 11.30am - 12.30pm, AHg.27, Augustine Hall, Augustine House

Please note: the venue for this talk was initially AH3.31 but has been moved.

From the fields of Norfolk to the royal court, via city commerce, local government, liberal education and numerous wedding bells, the Boleyns emerge as just one of the many newly prosperous and ambitious families seeking to make the best of the changing world. As they struggle upwards, England is visited by famine, plague, revolt and civil war – but also opportunity. While the Bolyn’s new-found wealth delivered power and status. They still lived in a violent world and life could be precarious, even for a queen. Thus from steady climb to bone-breaking fall, the Bolyn’s story is medieval life at its messy, prejudiced and unstable best.

Claire Martin has been a historian and writer for ten years. She studied first at St Peter’s College, Oxford and later at Royal Holloway, University of London. She began working for the research agency behind the television series Who Do You Think You Are, while still studying full time and subsequently worked as a part-time teaching fellow at Royal Holloway University and Queen Mary’s University. She has carried out research for a number of London Livery Companies and others, including for fellow academics. Her new book on the Boleyn family was published in 2023.

Tickets

Tickets are £10 per event. If you are booking 10 or more tickets of any given type (e.g. 10 tickets to one lecture, or 1 ticket to 10 lectures) within a single transaction, then a discount of £2 per ticket will be applied at the checkout, and you will only pay £8 per ticket.

During the Weekend, tickets can be purchased with cash or card at the temporary Box Office, which will be situated in the foyer of Augustine House, next to the CCCU Bookstall.

Student discounts

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