Event Type: Local / Community

Takes Place: 26th April 2025

Time: 10.00

Venue: Augustine House, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury CT1 2YA

Description: The Tudors and Stuarts 2025 History Weekend will take place from Friday 25 April to Sunday 27 April 2025, primarily at Augustine House, Canterbury Christ Church University. The CCCU Bookshop will have a stall there throughout the Weekend. The lectures and guided visits showcase recent research on the period of the ‘Tudors & Stuarts’, making it readily accessible to a wide audience. Among the exciting internationally known scholars and well-known, more popular historians who have been invited are Alison Weir, Glenn Richardson, Clare Jackson, Steven Gunn, and Jackie Eales, who will cover topics across the period featuring several Tudor and Stuart monarchs and the problems faced by them and their subjects across a turbulent period in British history. Lectures and guided tours are classified under four themes: ‘Royalty and Nobility; ‘War and Politics’; ‘Art, Literature and Religion’ and ‘Social History’. Those attending lectures book their chosen events using a pick-and-mix approach.

How to book: Programme and booking details at: ckhh.org.uk/tudors-stuarts and there is an automatic discount for those buying 10 or more tickets in one transaction

Price: £10/event

Tel: 01227 782994

Email: artsandculture@canterbury.ac.uk

Website: https://ckhh.org.uk/tudors-stuarts

Organiser: Sheila Sweetinburgh

Lecturer: Alison Weir et al.

Comments: The Weekend is organised by the CCCU Centre for Kent History and Heritage in conjunction with Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library, which will provide two tours. Any surplus from the Weekend goes into the Ian Coulson Memorial Postgraduate Award Fund to

Region: South-East England