Join Historic Royal Palaces and History Today as they bring together experts from literature, academia and culture for
a series of lively debates in 2009 to mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne.

The guest speakers are eminent historians, historical novelists, scholars, curators and directors, and include such prestigious
names as David Starkey and Dan Snow

AHRC funding has supported the performance of John Heywood’s ‘The Play of the Weather’. RSC Director Greg Thompson directs these two performances of a play originally commissioned and performed for Henry VIII’s court. This is part of a collaborative research project led by Thomas Betteridge of Oxford Brookes University.

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