Join Helen Newsome-Chandler in conversation with Elena Woodacre as she celebrates the launch of The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541) with friends, colleagues and well-wishers. 

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In The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), Helen Newsome-Chandler presents the first standalone edition of the holograph letters of Margaret Tudor, queen of Scots (1489-1541). The volume includes 111 holograph letters (written in Margaret’s own hand) and 4 ‘hybrid’ letters (written by a scribe, with a postscript or subsection by Margaret herself). These letters form an unprecedented epistolary archive, featuring the largest collection of holograph correspondence in English or Scots of any medieval or early modern queen hitherto discovered. The letters offer a fascinating insight into Margaret Tudor's life as a late medieval queen, including the challenges she faced in negotiating her dual identity as queen of Scots and an English princess, and the important role she played in Anglo-Scots politics and diplomacy in the early sixteenth century.

Following a conversation between Helen and Elena, there will be opportunity to post questions.

Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler is a historical linguist, with expertise in late medieval and early modern women’s writing and epistolary culture. She has received grants and fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the Marie-Skłodowska Curie Actions fund, and the Society for Renaissance Studies. Her recent publications include contributions to Women’s Writing, Renaissance Studies, Royal Studies Journal, and The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, vol. I: Medieval to 1707.

Dr Elena Woodacre is a Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester. She is a specialist in queenship and royal studies and has published extensively in this area including her recent monographs, Queens and Queenship (ARC, 2021) and Joan of Navarre: Infanta, Duchess, Queen, Witch (Routledge, 2022). Elena is the organiser of the ‘Kings & Queens’ conference series, founder of the Royal Studies Network, Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Studies Journal, the editor of two book series with Routledge and ARC Humanities Press and a general editor of the Winchester University Press. Dr Woodacre regularly engages with international media on current events connected with monarchical history and featured in the documentary series Queens that Changed the World.

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Book Launch: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots