'Power To Peasantry: The Art Of Being A Woman In Tudor England' Virtual Summit

Suzannah is a well-known author and TV presenter. She will set the scene for us by exploring the many and varied expectations placed upon women during the sixteenth century. The conversation with her is gripping as she so eloquently challenged the accepted narrative around women of the period. Get ready to think again as she highlights why, if we do not understand the patriarch, misogyny and gender roles of the time, nothing in the period makes any sense!

The second of our speakers tackles the first of these topics. She is Emma Rutherford, from the Philip Mould Gallery in London. Emma will be talking about how women of status used art and miniatures, in particular, to communicate. We will even hear about the fascinating life of Lavina Teerlinc, who broke the mould by forging a career as a successful female limner in an exceptionally male-dominated world.

In our last video to focus on the lives of the female aristocracy, in the next video, Dr Rachel Delman from the University of York will share her perspective on how the most high-status women in Tudor England used the built environment as a denominator of their power and role in society.

In the final two videos, we move our focus from the exceptionally wealthy to the middling classes of Tudor England.

Jane Malcolm-Davies and Ninya Mikhaila, also known collectively as 'The Tudor Tailor' will explore the role of the ordinary housewife in the production of clothes for the household and how a typical woman of such a status would dress.

Hi! My name is Sarah. I am the Founder and CEO of The Tudor Travel Guide. This means I split my time between travelling around and visiting places, and researching and writing content for my membership site: The Ultimate Guide to Exploring Tudor England, which I hope to develop over time to become the most comprehensive resource for learning about and discovering Tudor locations in the UK.

My mission is to help you immerse yourself in the sixteenth century by weaving stories of people and events into the places where they unfolded. Hence, I am delighted to bring you this summit, which looks back the lives of women in sixteenth century England. In the final film, you will time travel with me to Paycockes House in Essex, home to Thomas Paycocke, a wool merchant, and his wife, Anne. Together we will draw back the veil of time and immerse ourselves in this, our first-ever fly-on-the-wall video of life in Tudor England.

Alongside committing to deliver thoroughly researched, factual content, the one other magical ingredient that I think brings us as close to time travel as humanly possible is my belief that…

It is only time, and not space, which separates us from the past.

I hope you enjoy this summit!