
The Stuart Story: in-conversation with Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Dr Anna Keay
The Stuart period was a dramatic long century marked by dynastic intrigue, religious strife, civil war, regicide, and the rise and fall of the monarchy. Join Library members and award-winning authors Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Dr Anna Keay for a discussion on the power, politics, and personalities of the seventeenth century, from King James I and his favourite the Duke of Buckingham to the extraordinary decade following the execution of Charles I in 1649.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a cultural historian and author of The Scapegoat: The Brilliant, Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham (2024). Her biography The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War won the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book Award for Biography, and the Duff Cooper Prize.
Dr Anna Keay is Director of The Landmark Trust and author of several books on 17th-century British history. Her latest, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown, was short-listed for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize.
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