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Past talks and lectures
(complete since 1999)
Tuesday 14 May 2013
The National Archives
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Saturday 11 May 2013
Mortimer History Society, Earl Mortimer College, Leominster
A talk on 'The Mortimers in the time of Richard II' for the Mortimer History Society's annual conference.
Saturday 13 April 2013
Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, Canterbury Cathedral
Talking about 'Henry IV; his reputation and his legacy', on the 600th anniversary of his death, at a colloquium organised by the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Sunday 28 April 2013
Dillington House
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England in the wonderful environs of an Elizabethan architectural gem, Dillington House.
Thursday 14 March 2013
Thackeray Society, Reform Club
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Tuesday 5 March 2013
University of Exeter
Talk to students about writing history for the public, part of the series of lectures entitled 'The Uses of the Past'.
Friday 22 February 2013
The American Library, Karlsruhe, Germany
An A-Z talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England. Details about the American Library are available on the Library's own pages.
Saturday 24 November 2012
Off the Shelf, Sheffield
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Saturday 17 November 2012
Crediton Community Bookshop
A short talk on books as a civilising factor over the last thousand years at the launch of this new local bookselling initiative.
9-11 November 2012
Copenhagen Book Fair, Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Two interviews with the Danish historical novelist Martin Jensen, conducted by the historian and cuttural commentator for Weekendavisen, Bo Bjørnvig.
Thursday 11 October 2012
Rye Books, East Dulwich, London SE22
'The A to Z of Elizabethan England'.
29-30 September 2012
Historical Novel Society Conference, London
Chairing a session on 'The Lying Art of Historical Fiction' and speaking the next day on the theme of 'The Problems of visiting the past in fact and fiction'.
Tuesday 25 September 2012
Taunton Literary Festival
Appearance as James Forrester. Talking about fear and the senses in Elizabethan England.
Monday 24 September 2012
Bow and District Historical Society, Devon
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Friday 14 September 2012
Friends of Buckfastleigh Library, Devon
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Saturday 8 September 2012
Gloucester History Festival
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Harrogate International Festival (Spiegeltent)
Appearance as James Forrester. Talking about fear and the senses in Elizabethan England.
Monday 9 July 2012
Ways with Words, Dartington
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Devon Writers Group
Houndtor medieval village: imagining the medieval experience.
Saturday 30 June 2012
Chalke Valley History Festival
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Friday 29 June 2012
Research Centre for Creative Writing, Bath Spa University
Talking about creative non-fiction at a one-day symposium, 'Other voices, other times'
Thursday 14 June 2012
Oxford University Historical Society
'A-Z of Elizabethan England'
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Friends of The National Archives
Lecture entitled, 'Creative non-fiction: where does history go from here?' A copy of the text is available here.
Saturday 2 June 2012
Charles Causley Festival, Launceston
Talking about my work as both Dr Ian Mortimer and James Forrester,
principally focusing on The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
but also saying how it informs the writing of my fiction.
Thursday 31 May 2012
Chagword Festival, Chagford, Devon
'A-Z of Elizabethan England' at the inaugural session of Chagword, the new literary festival in Chagford.
Wednesday 23 May 2012
The Lustleigh Society, Devon
'A-Z of Elizabethan England'.
Monday 14 May 2012
The Du Maurier Festival, Fowey, Cornwall
Appearance as James Forrester. Talking about my Clarenceux trilogy of novels, writing about experiencing life in Elizabethan England, and historical fiction in general.
Sunday 13 May 2012
The Du Maurier Festival, Fowey, Cornwall
'A-Z of Elizabethan England'.
Saturday 21 April 2012
The Time Traveller's Guide to the heart of the past...
A special all-afternoon fundraising event, featuring talks on medieval and Elizabethan England, held at Dartmoor National Park Authority's Grade 1 Listed longhouse, Higher Uppacott, on the edge of Dartmoor. In aid of maintaining the house. Click here for my original press release.
Thursday 19 April 2012
Waterstones, Reading
'A-Z of Elizabethan England'.
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Waterstones, Guildford
'A-Z of Elizabethan England'.
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Waterstones, Cirencester
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England. Event with Dr Marc Morris.
Thursday 12 April 2012
Waterstones, Bath
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England. Event with Dr Marc Morris.
Wednesday 4 April 2012
Taunton Castle, Somerset
A talk in the castle hosted by Brendon
Books about The
Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Thursday 29 March 2012
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Monday 26 March 2012
Thursday 22 March 2012
Saturday 10 March 2012
Thursday 8 March 2012
Saturday 14 January 2012
Tuesday 6 December 2011
Friday 18 November 2011
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Thursday 27 October 2011
Friday 14 October 2011
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Thursday 15 September 2011
Saturday 23 July 2011
Saturday 16 July 2011
Friday 15 July 2011
Wednesday 15 June 2011
Thursday 26 May 2011
Saturday 21 May 2011
Wednesday 27 April 2011 'Rewriting History'
Wednesday 9 March 2011 'Accessing the medieval' - a panel discussion and writing workshop
Tuesday 1 February 2011 Panel discussion on life and medicine in the 18th century
Tuesday 7 December 2010
Sat/Sun 6-7 November 2010
Friday 29 October 2010
Thursday 14 October 2010
Wednesday 29 September 2010
Friday 24 Sept 2010
Sunday 19 Sept 2010
Thursday 16 Sept 2010
Sunday 18 July 2010
Friday 16 July 2010
Sunday 6 June 2010
Friday 5 March 2010
Weds 20 January 2010
Saturday 24 October 2009
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Saturday 19 September 2009
Tuesday 15 September 2009
Saturday 11 July 2009
Thursday 11 June 2009
Wednesday 6 May 2009
Tuesday 10 March 2009
Thursday 29 January 2009
Monday 17 November 2008
Wednesday 22 October 2008
Sunday 19 October 2008
Saturday 27 September 2008
14 July 2008
10 May 2008
16 January 2008
13 October 2007
10 October 2007
18 August 2007
8 August 2007
21 July 2007
21 October 2006
18 September 2006
19 April 2006
17 March 2006
18 January 2006
2 July 2005
25 April 2005
16 October 2004
21 May 2004
9 March 2004
8 March 2004
6 March 2004
12 November 2003
14 October 2003
19 November 2002
5 October 2002
4 October 2002
16 September 2002
2001
2001
24 May 2001
17 January 2001
8-10 September 2000
December 1999
3 December 1999
1998
16 September 1997
5 December 1994
Waterstones, Tunbridge Wells
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
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.
Waterstones, Salisbury
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Exeter Central Library
A talk about The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England. Hosted by Waterstones in the Music Room the library.
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.
Waterstones, 203-6 Piccadilly, London
A talk to launch The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
Winchelsea Archaeological Society, Sussex
Talk in Winchelsea Church entitled 'Edward II and Edward III: the nadir and zenith of medieval royalty'.
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.
Institute of Historical Research, London
Panel discussion on the differences of academic history and historical fiction as part of the 'Novel Approaches' conference.
Portsmouth Bookfest
Appearance as James Forrester. A sensory ride through Elizabethan England.
U3A, Totnes
Talk on 'Living Through History'.
Friends of St Andrews Church, Moretonhampstead
Talk on the Church in Moreton.
Cheltenham Literature Festival
Appearance as James Forrester. A sensory ride through Elizabethan England.
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'.
Crime Writers Association, Harrogate
Appearance as James Forrester. Talking about my first two novels at the CWA dinner.
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.
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.
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.
Kingston Readers Festival
Appearance as James Forrester.
Mortimer History Society Conference, Ludlow
The Mortimers and the Royal Family, 1200-1600.
Ugborough History Society, Ugborough Church, Devon
University of Nottingham
Festival to celebrate the life and times of the surgeon Dr Richard Stucley (1730-1811), Chulmleigh
Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
'Rewriting history: royal conspiracies in late medieval England' (Open Lecture Series).
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'.
Topping Bookshop, Bath
'Medieval Intrigue: decoding royal conspiracies'.
Cheltenham Literary Festival
Talking about 'Rewriting History'.
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.
Budleigh Salterton Literature Festival
'Rewriting History'.
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.
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).
Ways with Words, Dartington, Devon
'Rewriting History'.
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.
Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival
'Rewriting History' (not '1415' as in the programme).
Words by the Water, Cumbria
'Rewriting History'.
Moretonhampstead History Society
'Rewriting History'.
Mortimer History Society
Inaugural presidential address for the newly formed society: 'What did the medieval Mortimers do for us?'.
Appledore Books Festival, Appledore, North Devon
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.
Richard III Society, Plymouth Branch
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.
Lympstone History Society
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.
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
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.
Widecombe History Society, Church House, Widecombe, Devon
A talk on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.
University of Plymouth/Peninsula Arts in conjunction with the Historical Association
Public lecture entitled 'Sex and Death in the Fourteenth-Century Royal Family'.
Endecott House, The Square, Chagford
Talk on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England for the Chagford Local History Society.
The Church of the Holy Cross, Crediton
Public talk on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.
Toppings Bookshop, Bath
Talk on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.
Cheltenham Literary Festival
Discussion on the battle of Agincourt with Professor Richard Holmes and the historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell.
Lichfield Festival (Lichfield Literature Weekend)
Talk on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Ways with Words, Dartington, Devon
Talking about 'The Fears of Henry IV'. (See blog entry by Oxford Reader on this talk.)
The Richard III Society, Devon and Cornwall Branch
'The Deaths of Kings'
Moretonhampstead History Society
'The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England' (Chairman's Address)
Ilkley Literary Festival
'King Henry IV'. (See blog entry by daemonwolf on this talk.)
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.'
Tiverton Literary Festival
'The Fears of Henry IV'
Waterstones, Exeter
'The Fears of Henry IV'
Chagford Arts Festival
'The Fears of Henry IV'
Leintwardine History Group
'Edward III, the Mortimers, and the Leintwardine Chantry'
University of Exeter, Department of History
'The Rural Medical Marketplace in Early Modern England'
Moretonhampstead History Society
'Edward III, the Perfect King'
Sky News (live, half-hour discussion)
'Why do we celebrate St Patrick's day more than St George's day?'
Moretonhampstead History Society
'Medieval Moretonhampstead' (Chairman's Address)
Ludlow Literary Festival
'Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March'
University of Oxford, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
'The Importance of Towns to the Seriously Ill and Dying in 17th-Century Kent'
Friends of Devon's Archives
'Census Records for 17th-Century Devon'
The Royal Historical Society
'The Triumph of the Doctors' (The Alexander Prize Essay)
Oundle Literary Festival
'The Age of Treason'
The Devonshire Association
'The Mystery of the Death of Edward II'
Friends of Usk Castle
'The Rise of the Mortimers, 1086-1360'
University of Reading, Department of History
'The Triumph of the Doctors'
Cheltenham Literary Festival
'The Death of Edward II' and (with Dr Marc Morris) 'A Historical Tour of Berkeley Castle'
Friends of Devon Archives
'Archives and the Internet'
The Henry Williamson Society
'The Henry Williamson Archive at Exeter University Library'
The Devon and Exeter Institution, Exeter
'The Poetry of History'
Silverton History Society
'Literary Papers at Exeter University Library'
University of Exeter, School of English, and SW Arts
'The Papers of Daphne DuMaurier'
Friends of Devon Archives
'The Literary Collections of Exeter University Library'
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'
Moretonhampstead History Society
'Doctors, dirt and disease in early modern England'
University of Exeter, Centre for Medical History
'Anthrax and the State 1895-1945'
Friends of Devon Archives
'Devon Manors'
University of Exeter, Centre for Medical History
'When does health matter? New approaches to the study of early twentieth century occupational health'
Berkshire Family History Society
'Life and Death in Berkshire, 1590-1720: the evidence of the Berkshire Probate Accounts'
The Society of Archivists, Annual Conference
'Wide Area Networks Unlocked'
Berkshire Record Society AGM
'The Glebe Terriers of Berkshire, 1634'
