Archive - Wolf Hall Weekend

One Month Until Wolf Hall Weekend 2026!

Dr Tracy Borman shares her obsession with Thomas Cromwell and her love of Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light.

May 6 • Wolf Hall Weekend

The Author and the Ambassador

Did Eustace Chapuys help create Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell?

May 3 • Wolf Hall Weekend

April 2026

Underlining Mantel's History: A Q&A with The Tudor Notebook

A conversation with Rebecca Batley and Amy McElroy on the art of bringing Thomas Cromwell off the page.

Apr 26 • Wolf Hall Weekend

Wolf Hall on Stage, Once More

Ben Miles and Aurora Dawson-Hunte introduce a rare staged reading of Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light.

Apr 19 • Wolf Hall Weekend

How Cromwell’s choice shaped a queen.

The appointment of Kat Ashley and the making of Elizabeth I

Apr 12 • Wolf Hall Weekend

If it ain’t mentioned, it ain’t on the map

Matt Brown’s Wolf Hall maps — and how they can help the way we see Cromwell's world.

Apr 5 • Wolf Hall Weekend

March 2026

Hilary Mantel inherits a Cromwell from G.R. Elton and fills in the gaps.

Elton made Thomas Cromwell historically unavoidable; Mantel made him imaginatively present.

Mar 29 • Wolf Hall Weekend

Cromwell’s revolution in statute: the Acts that remade England.

How Cromwell’s 'legal machine' actually worked.

Mar 25 • Wolf Hall Weekend

Anna Dempsey Wins the Inaugural Hilary Mantel Prize

The literary world has long felt the absence of Dame Hilary Mantel’s “desiccated precision” and her fierce, generous spirit.

Mar 24 • Wolf Hall Weekend

Would There Have Been Wolf Hall Without G. R. Elton?

Diarmaid MacCulloch talks about the historian who put Cromwell centre stage and the resurrection of Thomas Cromwell in history and fiction.

Mar 15 • Wolf Hall Weekend

‘Though that Men do Call it Dotage’ read by Damian Lewis

Watch now | The Tudor Heart: A Poignant Token of Royal Love

Mar 10 • Wolf Hall Weekend

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On Capturing a Queen: The Image of Anne Boleyn

We talk to Wolf Hall Weekend speaker Dr Owen Emmerson about this unique exhibition at Hever Castle

Mar 8 • Wolf Hall Weekend