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Dr Joanne Paul
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A "sparkling historian" ✨- The Times #thehouseofdudley
"visceral and illuminating ... her style is cinematic" - Wall Street Journal
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I'll be speaking at St Alban's Cathedral on the 19 March (that's the day the paperback of Thomas More is out!).

You can get your tickets here - www.stalbanscathedral.org/Event/thomas...
Thomas More: Man, Myth, Mystery - 19/03/2026 19:30:00
Saintly scholar, zealous persecutor, ambitious statesman - who was the ‘real’ Thomas More? Drawing on new research, Dr Joanne Paul will separate the man from the myth to discover the real Thomas More.
www.stalbanscathedral.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Discover the secrets of Thomas More's greatest work, Utopia, with me. A four-week course, beginning next week!

roundtable.org/live-courses...
Discovering Thomas More’s Utopia
In this four-session class with returning Roundtable instructor Dr. Joanne Paul, we’ll uncover the significance of Thomas More’s seminal text, Utopia, and learn about its resonance both for its own age and for our present moment.
roundtable.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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Born on this day 1478, in London, Thomas More. Later a Sir and (to some) a Saint. Here in 1527 by Hans Holbein. A true masterpiece of portraiture!
February 7, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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📅 #onthisday 7 Feb 1478 – Thomas More was born 👶
Half a millennium later, myths still swirl around his life and death.

@drjoannepaul.bsky.social rages against the idea he ‘died for the Pope’ and unpacks the legend.
🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/34939e

#History #Podcast #otd #onthisdate #TudorHistory
February 7, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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At about 22m in, Ian McKellan brings the Colbert studio to a total, rapt standstill with this speech, written by Shakespeare 400 years ago, of Thomas More to Londoners rioting over recent immigrants to remember themselves and welcome others. youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...
"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
February 5, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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🎟️Another couple of tickets sold for The Book of Sir Thomas More - it's a small room, and there aren't many spaces, so book now to avoid disappointment! More (ahem) on the event and other exciting developments in this thread.👉
#drama #theatre #live #DeepDive #unique #events
🎉The show will be an epic deep dive into The Book of Sir Thomas More, with an introduction & a full script-in-hand live audio recording of the text.
🎟️Pre-sales were very healthy, so there really aren't many available - book now to avoid missing out. www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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From histories on the Irish famine, Gertrude Stein and Thomas More to a series of Shakespeare retellings with bright new covers, March’s paperback offering is as eclectic as ever, says Will Smith 👇 #BookSky
March 2026: Paperback Previews
ebx.sh
January 15, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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29 Jan 1559: d. Sir Thomas Pope, founder of Trinity College #Oxford. He was also the man who informed Thomas More on 5 July 1535 that he would be executed the next day. (TrinityCollege Oxford)
January 29, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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🚨Not long now till we announce more about our next big event: The Book of Sir Thomas More...
Beyond that it's an epic deep dive into the play, with a script in hand performance of as much of the manuscript as is practical (recording for the podcast) with detailed introduction, panel discussions...
January 25, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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🚨 FESTIVAL SPECIAL🚨
When history turns Jane into a victim, we lose the real woman. 👑
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social challenges the comforting "blindfold pawn" myth

🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/378cfd
🎟️ Katherine of Aragon Festival, 31 Jan–1 Feb
👉 peterborough-cathedr...
January 21, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Have you enjoyed this week’s festival special? 🎧✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "The House of Dudley” by @drjoannepaul.bsky.social through the History Rage Bookshop!

📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...
Listen now 🎧: pod.fo/e/378cfd

#History #Podcast
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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🚨 FESTIVAL SPECIAL🚨
The Dudleys didn’t survive alone. 👑
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social spotlights the women who held the family together when everything collapsed.

🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/378cfd
🎟️ 31 Jan–1 Feb
👉 peterborough-cathedr...

#WomensHistory #Tudors
January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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🚨 FESTIVAL EXTRA🚨
Few families fall harder — or rise faster — than the Dudleys. 🔁
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social explores Tudor survival at its most ruthless.

🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/378cfd
🎟️ Katherine of Aragon Festival, 31 Jan–1 Feb
👉 peterborough-cathedr...

#Tudors #Dudleys
January 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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🚨 FESTIVAL SPECIAL🚨England’s future could have gone another way. 👑
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social reveals just how close the Tudors came to being replaced and why no one expected Mary to win.

🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/378cfd
🎟️ 31 Jan–1 Feb
👉 peterborough-cathedr...

#TudorHistory
January 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Blindfolded victim? Think again. ⚔️
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social dismantles the myth of Queen Jane as passive and powerless — and shows how much agency she really had.

🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/378cfd
🎟️ See Joanne live 31 Jan–1 Feb
👉 peterborough-cathedr...

#WomensHistory #Tudors
January 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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🚨 FESTIVAL SPECIAL🚨
Cut the Dudleys out and the story feels simpler and wrong. ⚔️
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social explains why history erased a whole family to make sense of chaos.

🎧 Listen: pod.fo/e/378cfd
🎟️ Katherine of Aragon Festival, 31 Jan–1 Feb
👉 peterborough-cathedr...
January 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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🚨 KATHERINE OF ARAGON FEST 🚨
She ruled as queen — history stripped her married identity. 👑
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social unravels how a name change erased power, and dynasty from Queen Jane.
🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/378cfd
🎟️ See Joanne live 31 Jan–1 Feb
👉 peterborough-cathedr...
January 15, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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🚨 FESTIVAL SPECIAL🚨
Names shape memory. 👑
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social explains why calling Jane “Grey” erases her life as a Dudley — and why that has to stop.

🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/378cfd
🎟️ See Joanne at Katherine of Aragon Fest, 31 Jan–1 Feb
👉 peterborough-cathedr...
January 15, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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🚨 COMING TOMORROW 🚨
She didn’t just lose her crown — she lost her name 👑
Paul Bavill and @drjoannepaul.bsky.social rage against the myth of “Lady Jane Grey” and restore Lady Jane Dudley.
🎟️ Katherine of Aragon Festival, 31 Jan–1 Feb
👉 peterborough-cathedr...

#Tudors
January 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
"DUDLEYS NEVER SAY DIE!"
HUGE THANKS to @drjoannepaul.bsky.social 🙌 for raging that “SHE’S NOT LADY JANE GREY, SHE’S LADY JANE DUDLEY!” 👑
Dudleys erased? Absolutely not ⚔️🖤 — plus executions 🪓, dramatic power climbs 📈 and why nobody turns into a horse 🐴
Out 15th January 🎧 — Katherine of Aragon Festival specials 👑
January 9, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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Can’t wait for this!!
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
I'm also thrilled to be participating in the Katherine of Aragon Festival on the 1 Feb, speaking about More's relationship with Katherine - tickets are available for both in person and online!

peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/about/histor...
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 AM
In February I'll be running a class with Roundtable on Thomas More's Utopia. Places are going fast!

roundtable.org/live-courses...
January 6, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Delighted to say that there will be lots going on in 2026!

To kick it off, I'll be in discussion with @nikkiclark86.bsky.social on Friday 29 Jan - this is a FREE ONLINE EVENT, so register your place now!

ashlandmass.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/vir...
Virtual - The Dudleys and the Howards with Authors and Historians Joanne Paul and Nicola Clark
This one is for our history buffs out there! Join authors and historians Joanne Paul and Nicola Clark (both of whom we've hosted before!) as they discuss their books,
ashlandmass.assabetinteractive.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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Top 10 of 2025 – No.7
🧑‍⚖️👑 @drjoannepaul.bsky.social dismantles the myth that Thomas More died as a simple papal martyr. His life — and death — were far messier and deeply political.
🔥 If you think he’s straightforward, you haven’t read enough.
🎧 pod.fo/e/34939e

#HistoryRage #TudorHistory
December 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM