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This event took place on 8 November 2024. The information below is correct as of the publication date.
What does it take to bring the real lives of medieval women into focus? How can artefacts and archives be connected into a wider narrative? What are the ambitions and the challenges of the curatorial role? Join the creators of the British Library’s flagship new exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words to get behind the scenes and find out! The curators Eleanor Jackson and Julian Harrison will be in conversation with Helen Castor.
This event accompanied the British Library exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words
(25 October – 2 March 2025).
Eleanor Jackson is Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library and lead curator of the exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words. She previously curated the exhibition Gold: Spectacular Manuscripts from Around the World (2022) and her publications include The Lindisfarne Gospels: Art, History and Inspiration (2022).
Julian Harrison is Lead Curator of Medieval Historical and Literary Manuscripts at the British Library, and co-curator of Medieval Women: In Their Own Words. He previously curated the exhibitions Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy (2015), Our Shakespeare (Library of Birmingham, 2016) and Harry Potter: A History of Magic (2017).
Helen Castor is a medieval and Tudor historian. Her books include the prize-winning Blood & Roses (Faber & Faber, 2004), She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England before Elizabeth, and Joan of Arc (Faber, 2010 and 2014). Her new book, The Eagle and the Hart (2024), tells the story of the tumultuous reigns of Richard II and Henry IV. She is on the advisory board for the exhibition.
This event took place on 8 November 2024. The information below is correct as of the publication date.
What does it take to bring the real lives of medieval women into focus? How can artefacts and archives be connected into a wider narrative? What are the ambitions and the challenges of the curatorial role? Join the creators of the British Library’s flagship new exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words to get behind the scenes and find out! The curators Eleanor Jackson and Julian Harrison will be in conversation with Helen Castor.
This event accompanied the British Library exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words
(25 October – 2 March 2025).
Eleanor Jackson is Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library and lead curator of the exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words. She previously curated the exhibition Gold: Spectacular Manuscripts from Around the World (2022) and her publications include The Lindisfarne Gospels: Art, History and Inspiration (2022).
Julian Harrison is Lead Curator of Medieval Historical and Literary Manuscripts at the British Library, and co-curator of Medieval Women: In Their Own Words. He previously curated the exhibitions Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy (2015), Our Shakespeare (Library of Birmingham, 2016) and Harry Potter: A History of Magic (2017).
Helen Castor is a medieval and Tudor historian. Her books include the prize-winning Blood & Roses (Faber & Faber, 2004), She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England before Elizabeth, and Joan of Arc (Faber, 2010 and 2014). Her new book, The Eagle and the Hart (2024), tells the story of the tumultuous reigns of Richard II and Henry IV. She is on the advisory board for the exhibition.
