This is an online event hosted on Zoom. Bookers are sent a link in advance giving access.
Take a look behind the scenes with the British Library curators of Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens, as they talk about the process of putting together this extraordinary exhibition.
Join Andrea Clarke and Karen Limper-Herz to find out how they selected some of the Library’s most exceptional 16th-century manuscripts and printed works to bring the dramatic story of the queens to life.
Andrea Clarke is Lead Curator of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts at the British Library. She co-curated the Library’s exhibition Henry VIII: Man and Monarch in 2009, and Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion in 2019, and is lead curator of Elizabeth & Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens. She is the author of Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance (2011) and Tudor Monarchs: Lives in Letters (2017).
Karen Limper-Herz is Lead Curator of Incunabula and Sixteenth Century Printed Books at the British Library. She is co-curator of Elizabeth & Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens and also co-curated Georgians Revealed: Life, Style & the Making of Modern Britain in 2013. She is Hon. Secretary and Vice President of the Bibliographical Society of London.
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