Tag Archives: Lucinda Byatt

“Planted thick with Rumour”: Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the Bodies

Posted on May 7, 2012 by

A shorter version of this interview is published in HNR, May 2012  (and online at the HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY website) “The border between truth and lies is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour”: Lucinda Byatt talks … Continue reading →

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Women of Moray – Promoting Women’s History

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

ADDENDUM: Really exciting news – this book has been shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish History Book Prize which will be announced on Friday 30 November 2012.  Link to the prize here. The Women of Moray project began with a … Continue reading →

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Rome ‘Caput Mundi’: Curia, Cardinals and Courtesans, 1300-1590

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

This 10-week course kicks off this Thursday (29th September) as part of University of Edinburgh’s Open Studies programme.  I am thrilled to be teaching a course on Rome.  I first visited the city in 1976 (on my way to a … Continue reading →

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A panel painting by Michelangelo in Oxford?

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

Rob Sharp, Arts correspondent for The Independent, contacted me by email on Friday – which was lucky because I was away for the weekend and might not otherwise have picked up his phone calls.   He was about to file an … Continue reading →

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