Dr Owen Emmerson and I are excited to announce the release date of our forthcoming book, The Boleyns of Hever Castle!
It has been a wonderful project to work on together and we are thrilled with the resulting book, which will be released as a coffee-table style book and e-book on 1st August 2021.
Find out more about our book in this video.
Owen and I will be launching our book at a special talk and book signing at the Festival Theatre, Hever Castle, on 1st August and you can book your ticket at https://heverfestival.co.uk/index.php/the-boleyns-of-hever-castle/
I will share more information and order links nearer the time.
Draft blurb:
Hever Castle is a picture-postcard fortified manor house nestled in the Kent countryside. It is, of course, famous for its links with the Boleyns, an East Anglian gentry family who rose and fell dramatically at the court of King Henry VIII.
In The Boleyns of Hever Castle, historians Dr Owen Emmerson and Claire Ridgway invite you into the home of this notorious family.
Travel back in time to those 77 years of Boleyn ownership. Tour each room just as it was when Anne Boleyn retreated from court to escape the advances of Henry VIII or when she fought off the dreaded ‘sweat’. See the 16th century Hever Castle come to life with room reconstructions and read the story of the Boleyns, who, in just five generations, rose from petty crime to a castle, from Hever to the throne of England…
