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History belongs to us all, and it can be accessed by us all.
I was educated at the City of London School for Girls, obtaining A-levels in English Literature, Art and History (English and European medieval history, with twelfth-century monasticism in the West as my specialist subject), then at the North Western Polytechnic of London, where I trained as a teacher with History as my main subject, studying world history, English medieval history and the Italian Renaissance.
in 2007. I did not pursue that career, however, because I quickly became disillusioned with trendy teaching methods.
Before becoming a published author in 1989, I was in Civil Service management, then a housewife and mother. I also researched the lives of all the mediaeval Queens of England, research I have since drawn on for several of my books.
After suffering several rejections, and then finding a fantastic literary agent, whose client I am fortunate to remain to this day, I finally found a publisher - the Bodley Head - in 1988.
The first, Elizabeth of York (Headline, 2022), published in May 2022 and the second, Henry VIII (Headline 2023), published May 2023.
Alison Weir is a bestselling and critically acclaimed popular historian and novelist.
Contact me through my Literary Agents:
Ben Clark, Julian Alexander and Sarah Stamp,
The Soho Agency Ltd,
2nd Floor,
16-17 Wardour Mews,
London W1F 8AT
0207-471-7900
www.thesohoagency.co.uk
Contact me through my Publishers:
Jonathan Cape (non-fiction) or Hutchinson (fiction 2006-14)
Penguin Random House,
20 Vauxhall Bridge Road,
London, SW1V 2SA.
0207-840-8400
www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk
Headline Publishing Group (forthcoming fiction from 2015)
Carmelite House,
50 Victoria Embankment
London,
EC4Y 0DZ338
0203 122 7222
www.headline.co.uk
Ballantine Books,
Penguin Random House,
1745 Broadway,
New York, NY 10019
(001) 212-572-2284
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
You can read more about my Six Tudor Queens series and a lot of other fascinating historical topics at http://hforhistory.co.uk/
EVENT REQUESTS
I have done over 1070 events at numerous historical sites, festivals, museums, art galleries, festivals, bookstores, libraries, organisations and charities in the UK, Ireland, the USA and Canada.
Since then, I have published seven more novels.
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EVENT REQUESTS
I have done over 1,100 events at numerous historical sites, museums, art galleries, festivals, bookstores, libraries, charities and schools in the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada and Italy.
I feel very privileged to be able to bring them to life in both my non-fiction books and my novels. I try to respond to everyone, but because of my busy writing schedule, I regret that I am unable to reply at length, as I would wish, to each kind person who writes to say how much they have enjoyed my books or asks me a question.
We can discover more about ourselves and our own civilisation.
From my heart, I should like to thank those of you who have bought my books, borrowed them from libraries, attended my events or written to me. And in an age in which history is increasingly perceived to be 'dumbed down' in schools, on television and on film, we can all learn from a study of the past.
Thanks are also due to everyone who has sent me information, photographs and ideas for forthcoming books, and to those who just wrote and said how much they enjoyed the ones I'd already written. I've been published in the U.S.A. She has written widely on the British Monarchy and her books include Eleanor of Aquitaine (Jonathan Cape, 2001), currently being adapted for television, Isabella: She-Wolf of France (Jonathan Cape, 2012), Richard III and the Princes in the Tower (Jonathan Cape, 2014)and The Lost Tudor Princess (Jonathan Cape, 2016);anextraordinary biography of the beautiful and tempestuous Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox who led a life packed with intrigue, drama and tragedy that spanned five Tudor reigns.
By the time I was fifteen, I had written a three-volume reference work on the Tudor dynasty, a biography of Anne Boleyn based partly on contemporary sources, and several historical plays; I had also started work on the research that would one day take form as my first published book, Britain's Royal Families.
During the early 1970s, I wrote historical novels and the original version of my second published book, The Six Wives of Henry VIII - 1024 pages long, and single-spaced - and had it rejected on the grounds that there was a world paper shortage!
Tickets go on sale on 4th April.
Wednesday, 15th July
3pm
The Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton
Event for the Buxton International Festival
QUEENS AT WAR
Alison Weir in conversation.
Booking details to come. I do so appreciate your support and encouragement, your creative comments, and also the occasional criticisms, which I do take very seriously, and which - I hope - help me to become a better writer.