Image: Bodelwyddan Castle Art Gallery, Bodelwyddan
The National Portrait Gallery has announced a lunchtime lecture, 'A New History of Tudor and Stuart England', set for 2 July from 13.00 to 14.00. The event is priced at £10, with reduced tickets at £8 for members and concessions, and features historian Nandini Das.
The lecture is billed as a fresh look at the period commonly associated with royal pageantry and Shakespearean myth. According to the gallery, Das will explore the complex reality beneath the familiar story of England as Shakespeare’s 'scepter’d isle', a nation imagined as proud and apart, and shaped by spectacle as much as by historical circumstance.
The talk forms part of the gallery’s wider events programme, which also includes free tours, evening talks and family activities across July and August. In the same newsletter, the institution points visitors to a range of other public offerings, from sessions on Marilyn Monroe to guided tours focused on stage and screen figures and British icons.
The Tudor and Stuart lecture sits alongside those events as one of the gallery’s more history-focused programmes. The National Portrait Gallery’s newsletters regularly combine portrait scholarship with public engagement, and this lecture continues that emphasis by bringing an academic historian into the gallery’s schedule for a short lunchtime format.
The notice does not give further biographical details about Das or additional lecture content beyond its central theme. It does, however, clearly position the talk as an invitation to reconsider a well-known chapter of English history through a more complex lens than the standard national narrative.
'A New History of Tudor and Stuart England' will take place on 2 July, 13.00-14.00, at the National Portrait Gallery’s London venue on St Martin’s Place.
