A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Waterstones, Richmond upon Thames
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England. Joint event with Dr Marc Morris, who was speaking about his new book, Conquest.
Monday 26 March 2012
Waterstones, Salisbury
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Thursday 22 March 2012
Exeter Central Library
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England. Hosted by Waterstones in the Music Room the library.
Saturday 10 March 2012
The Union Inn, Moretonhampstead, Devon
An evening of song and poetry, sharing the stage with Clive Pig (post-punk songwriter, performance poet, storyteller extraordinaire and all-round magician of the performed word). Poster here.
Thursday 8 March 2012
Waterstones, 203-6 Piccadilly, London
A talk to launch The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Saturday 14 January 2012
Winchelsea Archaeological Society, Sussex
Talk in Winchelsea Church entitled 'Edward II and Edward III: the nadir and zenith of medieval royalty'.
Tuesday 6 December 2011
Library Lecture Theatre, University College Plymouth, Marjon
Two talks: one on using openings and endings to good effect in historical writing (a class to creative writing students) and another on the purposes of history, in fiction and creative non-fiction. See here for the poster.
Friday 18 November 2011
Institute of Historical Research, London
Panel discussion on the differences of academic history and historical fiction as part of the 'Novel Approaches' conference.
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Portsmouth Bookfest
Appearance as James Forrester. A sensory ride through Elizabethan England.
Thursday 27 October 2011
U3A, Totnes
Talk on 'Living Through History'.
Friday 14 October 2011
Friends of St Andrews Church, Moretonhampstead
Talk on the Church in Moreton.
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Cheltenham Literature Festival
Appearance as James Forrester. A sensory ride through Elizabethan England.
Thursday 15 September 2011
University of Exeter & Wordquest
Appearance as a guest writer as part of the Imagine there's a Future project. My theme will be 'A short history of the future of Dartmoor'.
Saturday 23 July 2011
Crime Writers Association, Harrogate
Appearance as James Forrester. Talking about my first two novels at the CWA dinner.
Saturday 16 July 2011
Ways With Words, Dartington, Devon
'Reliving the Past'. When would you have liked to have lived in the past? It is a question we all have considered. Ian reflects on some of the biggest surprises of historical experience, drawing from his bestselling The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England and also his work-in-progress, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Friday 15 July 2011
Watermill Book Club, Newbury, Berkshire
Appearance as James Forrester. Drawing partly on scenes in the novels and partly on my non-fiction work in progress, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Wednesday 15 June 2011
Dartmoor National Park Authority
Talk on historical literature and the landscape, explaining how Dartmoor is not just inspiring for its natural beauty but, as a historic landscape, acts as a real-world reference library for the historical writer.
Thursday 26 May 2011
Kingston Readers Festival
Appearance as James Forrester.
Saturday 21 May 2011
Mortimer History Society Conference, Ludlow
The Mortimers and the Royal Family, 1200-1600.
Wednesday 27 April 2011
Ugborough History Society, Ugborough Church, Devon
'Rewriting History'
Wednesday 9 March 2011
University of Nottingham
'Accessing the medieval' - a panel discussion and writing workshop
Tuesday 1 February 2011
Festival to celebrate the life and times of the surgeon Dr Richard Stucley (1730-1811), Chulmleigh
Panel discussion on life and medicine in the 18th century
Tuesday 7 December 2010
Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
'Rewriting history: royal conspiracies in late medieval England' (Open Lecture Series).
Sat/Sun 6-7 November 2010
Writers at the Castle, Taunton
A Friday afternoon to Sunday morning weekend, for Martin Randall Travel. I attended sessions on the Saturday and Sunday and gave a talk on 'The Fake Death of Edward II'.
Friday 29 October 2010
Topping Bookshop, Bath
'Medieval Intrigue: decoding royal conspiracies'.
Thursday 14 October 2010
Cheltenham Literary Festival
Talking about 'Rewriting History'.
Wednesday 29 September 2010
Appledore Book Festival
'Interviewing Myself: history and historical fiction'. Probably the world's first stand-up historiography event. James Forrester, historical novelist, interviews Ian Mortimer, historian, about the limits of history - and Ian Mortimer interviews James Forrester about the limits of historical fiction. Confrontational, excoriatingly critical - and likely to end up in blows. Except that both Ian and James are one person.
Friday 24 Sept 2010
Budleigh Salterton Literature Festival
'Rewriting History'.
Sunday 19 Sept 2010
Reading Festival of Crime Writing
'Digging up the Past: Historical Crime'. Appearing as James Forrester in a panel event with several successful crime-fiction writers.
Thursday 16 Sept 2010
Waterstones Bookshop, Exeter High Street Branch
A book signing and informal introduction to my non-fiction work (as ian Mortimer) and my fiction (as James Forrester).
Sunday 18 July 2010
Ways with Words, Dartington, Devon
'Rewriting History'.
Friday 16 July 2010
Ways with Words, Dartington, Devon
A speaker was unable to turn up at Dartington due to ill-health, so I stepped in to speak about Medieval political murders.
Sunday 6 June 2010
Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival
'Rewriting History' (not '1415' as in the programme).
Friday 5 March 2010
Words by the Water, Cumbria
'Rewriting History'.
Weds 20 January 2010
Moretonhampstead History Society
'Rewriting History'.
Saturday 24 October 2009
Mortimer History Society
Inaugural presidential address for the newly formed society: 'What did the medieval Mortimers do for us?'.
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'.
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
Talking about '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'
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 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 (with Dr Marc Morris) 'A Historical Tour of Berkeley Castle'
19 November 2002
Friends of Devon Archives
'Archives and the Internet'
5 October 2002
The Henry Williamson Society
'The Henry Williamson Archive at Exeter University Library'
4 October 2002
The Devon and Exeter Institution, Exeter
'The Poetry of History'
16 September 2002
Silverton History Society
'Literary Papers at Exeter University Library'
2001
University of Exeter, School of English, and SW Arts
'The Papers of Daphne DuMaurier'
2001
Friends of Devon Archives
'The Literary Collections of Exeter University Library'
24 May 2001
University of Exeter, Postgraduate Conference
'The diocesan licensing of medical practitioners in early modern England: a case study of the diocese of Exeter 1660-1760'
17 January 2001
Moretonhampstead History Society
'Doctors, dirt and disease in early modern England'
8-10 September 2000
University of Exeter, Centre for Medical History
'Anthrax and the State 1895-1945'
December 1999
Friends of Devon Archives
'Devon Manors'
3 December 1999
University of Exeter, Centre for Medical History
'When does health matter? New approaches to the study of early twentieth century occupational health'
1998
Berkshire Family History Society
'Life and Death in Berkshire, 1590-1720: the evidence of the Berkshire Probate Accounts'
16 September 1997
The Society of Archivists, Annual Conference
'Wide Area Networks Unlocked'
5 December 1994
Berkshire Record Society AGM
'The Glebe Terriers of Berkshire, 1634'
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