IAN MORTIMER


Past Talks and Lectures (since 2003)

Friday 5 March 2010

Words by the Water, Cumbria

'Rewriting History'.


Weds 20th January 2010

Moretonhampstead History Society

'Rewriting History'.


Sunday 1st November 2009

BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Talking about 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory.


Saturday 24th October 2009

Mortimer History Society

Inaugural presidential address for the newly formed society: 'What did the medieval Mortimers do for us?'.


Monday 12th October 2009

Exeter FM Radio

Talking about my past books and new work, especially 1415.


Saturday 3rd October 2009

Excess Baggage (BBC Radio Four)

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.


Wednesday 30 September 2009

Appledore Books Festival, Appledore, North Devon

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.


Saturday 19 September 2009

Richard III Society, Plymouth Branch

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.


Tuesday 15 September 2009

Lympstone History Society

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.


Saturday 11 July 2009

Ways with Words, Dartington

A talk on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. A note appeared in a local paper - The Herald Express


Thursday 11 June 2009

St Andrews Church, Moretonhampstead, Devon

Centuries of Change: a talk to celebrate the 1100th anniversary of the establishment of the diocese of Exeter, formerly the diocese of Crediton, in 909 A.D.


Wednesday 6 May 2009

Widecombe History Society, Church House, Widecombe, Devon

A talk on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.


Tuesday 10 March 2009

University of Plymouth/Peninsula Arts in conjunction with the Historical Association

Public lecture entitled 'Sex and Death in the Fourteenth-Century Royal Family'.


Tuesday 17 February 2009 (broadcast date)

The Book Show, ABC Radio National (Australia)

An interview about visiting medieval England. You can download a version from the ABC website here.


Thursday 29 January 2009

Endecott House, The Square, Chagford

Talk on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England for the Chagford Local History Society.


Monday 17 November 2008

The Church of the Holy Cross, Crediton

Public talk on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.


Wednesday 22 October 2008

Toppings Bookshop, Bath

Talk on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.


Sunday 19 October 2008

Cheltenham Literary Festival

Discussion on the battle of Agincourt with Professor Richard Holmes and the historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell.


Saturday 27 September 2008

Lichfield Festival (Lichfield Literature Weekend)

Talk on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England


14 July 2008

Ways with Words, Dartington, Devon

'The Fears of Henry IV'. (See blog entry by Oxford Reader on this talk.)


10 May 2008

The Richard III Society, Devon and Cornwall Branch

'The Deaths of Kings'


25 February 2008 (broadcast date)

A Time Team Special (Channel Four)

'The Real Knights of the Round Table'


16 January 2008

Moretonhampstead History Society

'The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England' (Chairman's Address)


13 October 2007

Ilkley Literary Festival

'King Henry IV'. (See blog entry by daemonwolf on this talk.)


10 October 2007

Cheltenham Literary Festival

'King Henry IV'. Referring back to this talk in 2008, the festival's Artistic Director Sarah Smyth said: 'Last year, the medieval historian Ian Mortimer talked about Henry IV at 10am on a Wednesday morning and had an audience of 400.'


18 August 2007

Tiverton Literary Festival

'The Fears of Henry IV'


8 August 2007

Waterstones, Exeter

'The Fears of Henry IV'


21 July 2007

Chagford Arts Festival

'The Fears of Henry IV'


21 October 2006

Leintwardine History Group

'Edward III, the Mortimers, and the Leintwardine Chantry'


18 September 2006

University of Exeter, Department of History

'The Rural Medical Marketplace in Early Modern England'


19 April 2006

Moretonhampstead History Society

'Edward III, the Perfect King'


17 April 2006

Start the Week (BBC Radio Four)

'Edward III, the Perfect King'


17 March 2006

Sky News (live, half-hour discussion)

'Why do we celebrate St Patrick's day more than St George's day?'


18 January 2006

Moretonhampstead History Society

'Medieval Moretonhampstead' (Chairman's Address)


2 July 2005

Ludlow Literary Festival

'Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March'


25 April 2005

University of Oxford, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine

'The Importance of Towns to the Seriously Ill and Dying in 17th-Century Kent'


16 October 2004

Friends of Devon's Archives

'Census Records for 17th-Century Devon'


21 May 2004

The Royal Historical Society

'The Triumph of the Doctors' (The Alexander Prize Essay)


9 March 2004

Oundle Literary Festival

'The Age of Treason'


8 March 2004

The Devonshire Association

'The Mystery of the Death of Edward II'


6 March 2004

Friends of Usk Castle

'The Rise of the Mortimers, 1086-1360'


12 November 2003

University of Reading, Department of History

'The Triumph of the Doctors'


14 October 2003

Cheltenham Literary Festival

'The Death of Edward II' and 'A Historical Tour of Berkeley Castle'


March 2003

Today (BBC Radio Four)

'Traitors'

   

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