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One of the UK’s most exciting and successful summer events returns!

The Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival will run from 

26 th June to 2 nd July 2023

Image by Martin Cook

With so much uncertainty in the world, history has never been more relevant.

 

The Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival, one of the UK’s most successful and popular summer events, returns this year from 26th June to 2nd July. This unique festival, which takes place in Wiltshire, looks set to attract huge crowds of all ages, with every visitor keen to soak up the sights, sounds and smells of the past, and eager to learn more about the history of years gone by, whilst improving their understanding of what is happening in the world today.

 

For the first time this year, the entire programme will be themed, enabling visitors to find the talks and events they are interested in more easily, and to also encourage a little curiosity too. The six distinct themes are: Environment, Conflict, Politics, Science and Exploration, Sport and Society and Culture. 

 

Over the course of a week, the festival will host over 200 talks and panel discussions on leading issues of the past, present and future. These will take place across five fabulous venues: the 750-seater main tent, the 350-seater second tent, the Outdoor Stage, Speaker’s Corner – where speakers can talk in a more informal setting – and new for 2023, the Stove Tent, an intimate 100-seater in the round, with a central wood-burning stove – just perfect for cosy later-night events, a little live music and some atmospheric story-telling.

 

Visitors to the Chalke Valley History Festival will, as always, be spoilt for choice. Household names such as Simon Sebag Montefiore and Antonia Fraser will be taking to the stage in the speaker tents, whilst some of the most talented and vivacious historians, raconteurs and actors will be entertaining the crowds with a blend of inclusive hands-on activities and demonstrations. Just one of the big draws in the programme will be former Prime Minister John Major who will be talking about politics, both past and present. The BBC’s International Editor, Jeremy Bowen, will also be making his festival debut when he discusses the making of the modern Middle East, and Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee is bound to fuel debate as she examines the true state of class in Britain. 

 

James Holland, Chair of the festival, said: “This is a more integrated programme than ever before, and one that reflects the extraordinary times in which we’re living. We want everyone who comes here to have a brilliant time, and to enjoy themselves, because there’s such an incredible range of things to see and do.  But we also hope they’ll be able to learn a great deal as well, and that our events will help people to contextualise what’s happening in the world right now.”

 

Each day around the festival site, throughout the day and evening, performance artists will be sharing their enthusiasm and knowledge about their chosen subjects. Back-to-back entertainment, for all the family, will include Edwardian Adventurer Adam Schuch-des-Forges who will be regaling the crowds with his alter ego’s hilarious (mis)adventures from the Golden Age of Exploration. Dr Kate Vigurs, who became a huge festival-favourite last year, will be capturing the audience’s imagination again, this time with some astonishing women’s stories from history. Meanwhile, over in the speaker tent, ground-breaking writer Peter Frankopan will discuss his major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development and demise of civilisations across time.

Image by Martin Cook

 

Having received a standing ovation in 2022, the festival is delighted to welcome back Bill Browder who returns to talk about Russian money-laundering, state-sponsored murder and surviving Vladimir Putin’s wrath. For those who are keen to learn more from World War II veterans, two remarkable ladies will be sharing their memories on the stage this time: Betty Webb will be recounting tales of her codebreaking work at Bletchley Park, and Olga Henderson will explain what life was like as a child in a prisoner of war camp. 

 

The Chalke Valley History Festival for Schools will take place on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th June and will feature a wide range of curriculum-based subjects, delivered by the very best historians in the land. Speakers already confirmed include Tracy Borman on Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth 1, Jeremy Jennings on the French Revolution and Hallie Rubenhold on the untold lives of women killed by Jack the Ripper. Over 15,000 children have attended since the schools’ festival launch and each year more and more students are inspired to engage with history in new and exciting ways.

 

Huge living history encampments will be constructed around the festival site, and these will range from the Iron Age through to the Cold War. The Medieval encampment will be the centrepiece of the festival and is not to be missed. There will also be live music every day, special activities for children and families, as well as everything you’d expect from an English summer festival set in the glorious rolling chalk landscape of ancient Wessex: delicious locally-sourced food and drink, lots of shopping, more books to buy than you can shake a stick at, camping under the stars, and just the occasional crack of musketry, the thunder of hooves or the boom of cannon fire. The Chalke Valley History Festival is where history comes to life and where memories are made.

        Image by Martin Cook

 

The full programme, and more detailed information about what’s in store this year, will be unveiled in due course. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday 25th April.

 

Over 200 fascinating talks, given by incredible historians and entitled ‘Chalke Talk’, can now be heard on the Chalke Valley History Festival podcast.  These talks have been taken from more than a decade of festival appearances.

 

For further information, please contact Alex Hippisley-Cox on mobile 07921 127077 or email her at alex@ahipcoxpr.co.uk   

 

The Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival will take place at Church Bottom,
Broad Chalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 5DP. 

For more details about the Festival, please visit the recently-relaunched website at www.cvhf.org.uk   Follow all the news on Twitter at @CVHISTORYFEST and on Facebook and Instagram.

 

About The Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival

 

Attracting the finest and most distinguished historians, academics, leading thinkers, and writers from the UK and abroad, The Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival is now firmly established as one of the must-attend events of the festival summer. Taking place on a 70-acre farm, in the heart of the Wessex countryside just outside Salisbury in Wiltshire, it blends inspiring literary talks, discussions and panels with eye-catching and entertaining living history and historical experiences. 

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Monarchs in medieval Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. What about the Tudors? Why was it only in France that a royal mistress could become a political power player?

This unique episode of All Things Tudor explores this phenomenon with Drs Tracy and Christine Adams, and we take a look at how a special place at court was developed for the royal mistress.

A new way of political influence developed – in the form of an intelligent, charismatic woman – one who usually became the royal mistress. Diane de Poitiers is a prime example of this power player.

Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/165301

This podcast will appeal to anyone interested in the history of women and royalty, gender studies, and Anne Boleyn.

Dr Tracy Adams is Professor of French in the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics at the University of Auckland. She is the author of three books, including Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, also published by Penn State University Press.

Dr Christine Adams is Professor of History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She is the author or co-editor of four books, including A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France, also published by Penn State University Press.

 

 

 

 

Special thanks to Penn State University for supplying their book to me for this podcast.

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Arte, Poder y Género Research Group /  MEFER Project / Instituto Cervantes London /  

British Spanish Society / University College London

Organisation 

Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón. 

Coordination  

Laura Martínez Cayado. 

Dates 

24-25 January 2023. 

Format 

Hybrid (In person/Zoom). 

In person locations 

24 January.  

Instituto Cervantes.  

15-19 Devereux Ct, Temple,  London. 

25 January.  

Common Ground, South Wing,  University College London. 

Registration  

(Free/Required).  

Please send an email to  

artepoderygenero@um.es 

This international seminar celebrates the 500-year anniversary of the first publication of The Education of a Christian Woman. It will focus on its patron, author, and dedicatee. It will address its impact on the construction of the image  of female power in Tudor England. In 1523 De institutione feminae Christianae, the  book’s first title, was published. The author was Spanish Humanist Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540) who at the time was also a Lecturer at Corpus Christi College  in Oxford. The book was commissioned by his ‘only patron’, the Queen of  England, Catherine of Spain, commonly known as Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536). It was written in Latin, the language of the New Learning movement it belongs to, and it focused on the three stages in which Vives divided a woman’s life: as a maiden, as a married woman and a matron, and as a widow. It was dedicated to Princess Mary Tudor future Queen Mary I (1516-1558). It was part  of a wider curriculum that Queen Catherine designed for her daughter’s formal training as first ‘heiress apparent’ to receive a formal Renaissance education in England. The book was an instant success throughout Europe with many  reprints, and it became the most influential work of its kind in the Modern Age.  The Education of a Christian Woman had an impact in the way that Queen Mary I constructed her image of power as the first Queen Regnant in English history.  Despite this, Queen Catherine’s role as intellectual and financial patron is often overlooked and the connections between the manual and Mary I’s trailblazing propaganda as the first woman to be educated to rule have yet to be explored. 

This international seminar will focus both on visual arts and documentary evidence that deal with this important void in queenship historiography. Leading specialists in several fields will address topics like the Christian education of the  daughters of Queen Isabella of Castile and the ties between the Spanish alliance, and the construction of the image of female power in Tudor portraiture. Other important subjects will speak to Queen Mary I’s use of female recourses present in Vives’ work in the representations of the monarch as Queen Regnant, as ‘Mother of England’, and as married woman and queen consort of King Philip of Habsburg (1527-1598). Other experts will talk about Mary I’s role as first  woman to exercise power and how this was translated after her reign. Another crucial topic that will be discussed is the growing historiographical trend that is bringing to light Mary I’s outstanding contributions in female rulership in  Renaissance Europe. 

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24 January 

Location: Instituto Cervantes. 15-19 Devereux Ct, Temple, London. 

5.00 pm – 5.45 pm  (12:00 – 12:45pm Eastern) 

Acto inaugural.  

Víctor Ugarte.  

Instituto Cervantes London.  

José Pascual Marco.  

Ambassador of Spain to the United Kingdom.  

Alexander Samson.  

University College London.  

Noelia García Pérez.  

University of Murcia.  

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Las mujeres cristianas en los intercambios de retratos  entre la Monarquía Hispánica y la dinastía Tudor.

Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón.  

Independent Scholar.  

6.15 pm – 7.00 pm (1:15pm – 2:00pm Eastern)

Mary I & the Art of Queenship. 

Peter Stiffell. University of Kent.  

7.00 pm – 8.00 pm – Roundtable.  (2:00pm – 3:00pm Eastern)

Educating the Eye: Gender, Power, and Representation  in the Visual Arts in the Reign of Mary I. 

Karen Hearn. University College London. 

Johanna Strong. University of Winchester.  

Aoife Stables. Independent Scholar.  

Patricia Manzano Rodríguez. Durham University.  

Irini Picolou. Durham University.  

8.00 pm – 8.30 pm. Vino español. 

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25 January  

Location: Common Ground, South Wing, University College London.  

9.30 am – 10.15 am 

Before Vives. The Christian Education of the  Daughters of Queen Isabella of Castile .  

Melania Soler Moratón.  

University of Murcia / University of Valladolid.  

10.15 am – 11.00 am 

Juan Luis Vives’ ‘ Patronae Unicae’ : Queen Catherine  of Aragon and the Construction of the Image of  Female Power in Tudor England . 

Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón. Independent scholar.  

11.00 am – 11.45 am 

Early Modern Women and the Archive . 

Alexander Samson. University College London. 

11.45 pm – 1.45 pm. Lunch.  

1.45 pm – 2.30 pm  

The Continued Instruction of Christian Women:  Reprints of Vives . 

Valerie Schutte. Independent Scholar.  

2.30 pm – 3.15 pm  

The Power of Networks and The Networks of  Power: The Development and Cultivation of Female  Friendship by Mary I, for both Personal Solace, and  Political Capital. 

Melita Thomas. University College London. 

3.15 pm – 3.30 pm. Coffee break.  

3.30 pm – 4.30 pm. Roundtable. 

‘The Education of a Christian Woman’ in the  Context of Queenly Education.  

Elena Woodacre. University of Winchester.  

Participants: 

Alexander Samson. University College London.  

Valerie Schutte. Independent scholar.  

Melita Thomas. University College London.  

Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón. Independent scholar. 

Email for live or zoom attendance: artepoderygenero@um.es

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Connect with Dan:

Twitter: @thehistoryguy

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This episode originally launched on January 4, 2022.