Lauren Mackay

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Lauren Mackay
Education
Occupation(s)Historian, author
Notable workInside The Tudor Court

Among the Wolves of Court

The Wolf Hall Companion
HonoursFellow of the Royal Historical Society
Websitewww.laurenmackay.co.uk

Lauren Mackay FRHistS is an Australian historian, author, and lecturer specialising in the Tudor period and the broader early modern world.

Early life and education

Mackay completed her bachelor's degree at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music/University of Sydney, Australia. She completed her Master of History with University of New England, and received her PhD from the University of Newcastle, Australia.[1] Her PhD thesis investigated the life and career of Thomas Boleyn, father of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn.[2]

Career

Mackay's areas of research encompass medieval and early modern politics; the Renaissance and Reformation; diplomacy; humanism; and early modern literature and culture.[3][4] Her research also includes the wider realms of early modern Europe, in particular the Hapsburg Charles V, Francis I of France, and the Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent.[5] Mackay has given talks around the UK at many venues, such as Leeds Castle[6] the National Portrait Gallery, London,[7] Hever Castle,[8] and at the 2018 BBC history weekends at York and Winchester.[9]

TV documentaries

In 2020 she appeared in the three-part television documentary, Henry VIII and the King's men (Smithsonian Channel UK)[10]

In 2021 she was a consultant and expert contributor for the BBC2 three-part series The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family, which also draws on her research on the Boleyn men.[11]

In November 2022 Mackay, along with Professors Suzannah Lipscomb and Tracy Borman, provided the historical evidence behind the reality of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's relationship in Netflix's Blood, Sex & Royalty.[12]

Recognition and honours

Mackay is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship.[13]

Publications

Mackay has been a regular contributor to BBC History Magazine and All About History Magazine.[14]

Books

  • Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and his Wives through the Eyes of the Spanish Ambassador is the first biography of Imperial Ambassador, Eustace Chapuys.[15][16]
  • Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn (the latter referring to George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford), the first scholarly biography of the Boleyn men, was based on her doctoral research and published by Bloomsbury Publishing in September 2018.[17][18][19]
  • Thunder Through the Realms: Five Kingdoms and the shaping of Early Modern Europe (Bloomsbury, 2022) ISBN 9781788310420

References

  1. ^ "Lauren Mackay". Watson Little. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  2. ^ Mackay, Lauren (2019). The life and career of Thomas Boleyn (1477–1539): courtier, ambassador, and statesman (Thesis). University of Newcastle.
  3. ^ "Lauren Mackay". Watson Little. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Google Scholar lookup - Lauren Mackay". Google Scholar. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  5. ^ "I B Tauris signs Mackay on the Tudor court". The Bookseller. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  6. ^ Unknown. "Experience life in Medieval Times at Leeds Castle this Summer". The Jousting Life. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  7. ^ "What's On March - May 2019". Issuu. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Among The Wolves of Court". Hever Festival. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  9. ^ Mackay, Lauren (13 September 2018). "Interview: historian Lauren Mackay on Thomas and George Boleyn, father and brother of Anne Boleyn, and their place within the story of Henry VIII's reign and Tudor history". History Extra (Interview). Interviewed by Dinning, Rachel. BBC. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2022.{{cite interview}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  10. ^ "Henry VIII and the King's Men (2020 series)". Smithsonian Channel.
  11. ^ "BBC Two - The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family". BBC. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Blood, Sex & Royalty review – a terrific peek at Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's sexiest bits". the Guardian. 23 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  13. ^ "Royal Historical Society Fellows-M" (PDF).
  14. ^ "Lauren Mackay, BBC History Magazine". Laurenmackay.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  15. ^ "Lauren MacKay Book Launch". www.newcastle.edu.au. 3 May 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  16. ^ "Alison Weir Tours - Great Queens". www.alisonweirtours.com. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  17. ^ Bloomsbury.com. "Among the Wolves of Court". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  18. ^ Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and His Six Wives Through the Writings of the Spanish Ambassador Eustace Chapuys (Amberley, 2014) ISBN 978-1445645599
  19. ^ Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2018) ISBN 978-1788310437
  20. ^ "Wolf Hall Companion". Pavilion Books. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  21. ^ The Wolf Hall Companion (Batsford Books, 2020) ISBN 978-1911358619

External links

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