Talks and Events
Joanne gives various talks throughout the year. To arrange a speaking event, use the contact page. For recorded events and podcasts, see the Youtube playlist below.
UPCOMING EVENTS
See links below to purchase tickets.
(all times BST unless otherwise noted).
The Dudleys and the Howards with Authors and Historians Joanne Paul and Nicola Clark
Date: Thursday 29 January 3-4pm
Venue: ONLINE
This one is for our history buffs out there! Join authors and historians Joanne Paul and Nicola Clark (both of whom we've hosted before!) as they discuss their books, "The House of Dudley" and "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens". "The House of Dudley" is the story of England's Borgias, a noble house competing for proximity to the throne through cunning, adultery and sheer audacity, revealing some of the period's most talented, intelligent and cunning individuals. "The Waiting Game" explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting, revealing the secrets of recruitment, costume, what they ate, where (and with whom) they slept. Where do their paths cross? Let's find out!
Register here.
“A Good Servant of the Queen”: Thomas More and Katherine of Aragon
Katherine of Aragon Festival 2026
Date: Saturday 1 February noon-1pm
Venue: The Knights Chamber, Peterborough Cathedral and ONLINE
The lives and deaths of Thomas More and Katherine of Aragon appear inexorably intertwined. More’s first surviving letter detailed the Spanish Princess’s elaborate entrance into London to marry Prince Arthur. And his final, fatal stand against Henry VIII has long been seen as a defence of the marriage between Katherine and the king. But was More such a stalwart defender of Katherine as has long been perceived? Or did he too, in the end, abandon her?
Join award-winning historian Dr Joanne Paul as she explores the complicated, influential, and occasionally treasonous relationship between the Queen of England and her Lord Chancellor, drawing on new research published in her latest book: Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England.
Book in-person tickets here.
Register online here.
Thomas More: Man, Myth, Mystery
Date: Thursday 19 March, 7:30pm
Venue: St Alban's Cathedral
Saintly scholar, zealous persecutor, ambitious statesman - who was the ‘real’ Thomas More? Neither the hero of A Man For All Seasons nor the villain of Wolf Hall, this talk recovers the living, breathing, complex historical individual who walked London’s streets, wrote Utopia, and daringly spoke truth to Henry VIII. Drawing on new archival research from her biography of More, Dr Joanne Paul will separate the man from the myth to discover the real Thomas More. Join us as we delve into the fascinating world of the sixteenth century to separate fact from fiction and uncover the enduring legacy of one of history's most enigmatic and divisive figures.
Tickets here.