In 1894 French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason for selling military secrets to the Germans. Despite evidence that he was innocent, he remained in prison, many felt because of antisemitism. As controversy raged, novelist Emile Zola published a letter in the newspaper L’Aurore attacking the army for covering up its wrongful conviction. Would Dreyfus be exonerated? And...
‘Man is wolf to man’ in the Tudor Court as personal desires intersect with politics & religion. The king needs a male heir & so wants to annul his twenty year marriage in order to marry Anne Boleyn. The lowly-born Thomas Cromwell is given the task of making this possible, despite opposition from the papacy & the political establishment. How...
As Thomas Cromwell rises to greatness, Henry V111’s marriage to Anne Boleyn sours. The machinations that follow, engulf them all.Michael Tunnicliffe will give illustrated lectures on the history and theology of the period and Creina Mansfield will offer a literary analysis of Hilary Mantel’s Booker-prize winning novels.
