Join historian Andrea Zuvich, The Seventeenth Century Lady, as she welcomes June’s guest historian, Dr Jérémy Filet, to chat about the Late Stuart exiles and the Grand Tour, the subject of his monograph, The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational travel and small states' diplomacy published by Manchester University Press in 2025.

Social media links:

• https://x.com/JeremyFilet
• https://bsky.app/profile/drjeremyfilet.bsky.social
• https://mmu.academia.edu/DrJérémyFilet

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Join Andrea Zuvich, The Seventeenth Century Lady, as she welcomes guest historian, Dr Ismini Pells, to chat about Sir Philip Skippon, 'the third-most senior general in parliament's New Model Army', the British Civil Wars, and her work with the Cromwell Association and the Battlefields Trust.

• https://x.com/IsminiPells
• https://bsky.app/profile/isminipells.bsky.social
• https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/profiles/ismini-pells

Book your tickets to Andrea's talk on Barbara Villiers on 24 May 2026 at Leicester Guildhall:

• https://www.leicestermuseums.org/event-details/?id=a4f97b61-70aa-43b8-814e-992e48d8d998

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Join Andrea Zuvich, The Seventeenth Century Lady, as she welcomes Professor Cordelia Beattie of The University of Edinburgh, for a chat about the life and legacy of Alice Thornton (1626–1707), a remarkable seventeenth-century woman whose autopbiography gives us fascinating insights into the tumultuous period in which she lived. Professor Beattie is part of the Thornton project based at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the AHRC 2021-24. The project's main output was a digital edition of the 4 MSS of Alice Thornton (1626-1707).

Join Andrea Zuvich, The Seventeenth Century Lady, as she welcomes historian Dr Linda Porter, who specialises in the Tudors and Stuarts and has published several highly-acclaimed nonfiction works, including: Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots (2013), Tudors Versus Stewarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots (2014), Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars (2016), and Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II (2020). Andrea and Linda will chat about the Stuarts, their lives, the myths and perceptions about them, and their legacy: from Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles II and James II and their mistresses, to Queen Anne.

• https://www.lindaporter.net
• https://x.com/DrLindaPorter1
• https://www.facebook.com/lindaporterhistorian
• https://www.instagram.com/linda.porter7

Join Andrea Zuvich, The Seventeenth Century Lady, as she is joined by Phil Downing, the Manager of Harvington Hall, an Elizabethan manor house located in Worcestershire, England - a building filled with history! Andrea and Phil will chat about Harvington's Stuart-era history, priest hides, Early Modern recusancy, and more!

• https://harvingtonhall.co.uk/
• https://www.instagram.com/harvington_hall_official_/
• https://x.com/HallHarvington
• https://www.youtube.com/@harvingtonhall5576

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Join Andrea Zuvich, The Seventeenth Century Lady, as she welcomes guest Jennifer Morag Henderson to her salon to chat about Jean Gordon, Mary, Queen of Scots, and the infamous Earl of Bothwell, whose lives are so vividly brought to life in Henderson's nonfiction book, Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Jennifer:

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• ⁠https://x.com/jennifer_morag⁠
• ⁠https://www.instagram.com/north_morag⁠

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Join Andrea Zuvich, The Seventeenth Century Lady, as she welcomes her friend and guest historian, Susan Abernethy, to chat about Catherine of Braganza, who is the subject of her new biography. They'll chat about the Stuart period, Charles II, the Braganza family, the Restoration, the Bedchamber Crisis, and more! Order your copy of Susan's book.

Susan:

• http://thefreelancehistorywriter.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/thefreelancehistorywriter
• https://x.com/SusanAbernethy2

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Join Andrea Zuvich, The Seventeenth Century Lady, as she welcomes her friend and fellow Stuart History Festival co-founder, Dr Erica Canela, as they chat about the Quakers of the Stuart period, the subject of Erica's new book, ZEALOUS: A Darker Side of the Early Quakers.

Learn about who they were, why they were so radical, George Fox, Quaker printing, and more!

Erica:

• https://x.com/ericanela

• https://www.facebook.com/drericacanela
• https://www.threads.com/@ericanela
• https://www.instagram.com/ericanela
• https://bsky.app/profile/ericanela.bsky.social

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