HF 5 Dr Joanne Paul
Dr Joanne Paul: House of Dudley: Just the Women
Two Sisters’ Theatre Wed 21 Aug 2pm
All Ticket Prices Below
Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by their side—or by crushing one beneath their feet. Over three generations the Dudleys rose to the heights of power and found themselves on the executioner’s block.
But this isn’t the story of the Dudleys we might know – Edmund, John, Robert. This is the secret story of the women of the Dudley family, who for over a century continually picked up the pieces each time the family fell apart. It was their cunning, conniving and courtly brilliance that preserved the House of Dudley over generations, and their story has never been told.
Dr Joanne Paul is an award-winning historian, broadcaster and writer with a passion for sharing her research on Renaissance and Tudor history. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex and a 2017 AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker. She has published in the Cambridge University Press ‘Ideas in Context’ series and has been widely praised for her work on Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. The House of Dudley is her acclaimed history of the Dudley family. Picked as a Times Book of the Week and Book of 2022, The House of Dudley also garnered stellar reviews in The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Literary Review, Spectator, Wall Street Journal and was featured in History Today and BBC History Magazine.
If you wish to purchase the discounted, multiple show ticket offers please call the box office 07379 488 477 or email boxoffice@heverfestival.co.uk.
| Allocated Standard Seating (One Talk) | £21.70 |
| Allocated Covered Seating (Two Talks on the Same Day) | £35.90 |
| Allocated Covered Seating (All Talks) | £101.70 |
| Festival Friends & Hever Castle, Hever Golf and Wellbeing Club Members Allocated Covered Seating (One Talk) | £19.70 |
| Festival Friends & Hever Castle, Hever Golf and Wellbeing Club Members Allocated Covered Seating (Two Talks on the Same Day) | £35.90 |
| *Groups, over 20 tickets Allocated Covered Seating (One Talk) | £19.70 |
| *Groups, over 20 tickets Allocated Covered Seating (Two Talks on the Same Day) | £35.70 |
| Joint Theatre and Castle Garden entry adult Allocated Covered Seating (One Talk) | £36.40 |
| Joint Theatre and Castle Garden entry adult Allocated Covered Seating (Two Talks on the Same Day) | £50.60 |
| Joint Theatre and Castle Garden entry child Allocated Covered Seating (one Talk) | £30.90 |
| Joint Theatre and Castle Garden entry child Allocated Covered Seating (Two Talks on the Same Day) | £45.10 |
Two Sisters’ Theatre
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The Theatre Bar will be open on the theatre lawn before the show for hot and cold, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, ice cream and snacks.
Pre-theatre supper for the evening talk will begin at 6pm. If you would like to stay in the gardens for the rest of the afternoon and join us for dinner you would be most welcome. Here is the menu.
Do book your theatre tickets first, then follow this link to reserve your table. Please make a 6pm booking.
PLEASE NOTE: You have made a table reservation only, you may be asked to pre-order by the catering team in advance of the date and all meals and drinks are to be paid for on the night.