London Review of Books winter lectures
Hilary Mantel: Undressing Anne Boleyn

Is royal flesh different from ours? Do royal bones live? A lecture by Hilary Mantel on our fascination with royalty.

From Anne Boleyn to Kate Middleton, we are fascinated by the regal body, its contested attributes, its capacity for shape-shifting and posthumous survival. Hilary Mantel stares rudely at some royal persons, and wonders if they will stare back.

Hilary Mantel has written 11 novels, a memoir and a collection of short stories. The first two novels in her trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, both won the Man Booker Prize. She is working on the third, The Mirror and the Lamp.

London Review of Books winter lectures

Hilary Mantel: Undressing Anne Boleyn
Monday 4 February

David Runciman: The crisis of American democracy
Monday 11 February

Nicholas Spice: Is Wagner bad for us?
Monday 25 February

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