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Kate has spoken to many historical societies, museums, hotel conferences, schools, groups, commemorative dinners, festivals and events since 2004, including the National Maritime Museum, the Institute of Historical Research, the Romney Society, the University of the Third Age, Chawton House Library, and the Hay, Dartington, Chester, Wimbledon, Sevenoaks, and Port Eliot Festivals. 

2008

Friday 15th February at 7 pm: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and the Attitudes - with a live performance of the Attitudes', Waterstones Notting Hill, 39-41 Notting Hill Gate. enquiries@notting-hillwaterstones.com

Saturday 16th February: 'Emma Hamilton: England's Mistress', 'Panorama of History Conference Weekend', Wellesbourne Hotel, Warwickshire.

Saturday 6th March at 2pm: Who’s The Greatest Monarch, Windsor Festival, Windsor

Tuesday 15 April: 'Emma Hamilton: from Poverty to Celebrity' - Ealing Historical Association, Ealing Green Church, Ealing.

Monday 21nd April at 4.30pm: 'Emma Hamilton: England’s Mistress', Lady Hamilton Hotel, Stockholm, www.victoryhotels.se

Tuesday 22nd April at 4.30pm: 'Emma Hamilton: England’s' Mistress, Lady Hamilton Hotel, Stockholm, www.victoryhotels.se

6-20 May: Emma Hamilton: The first Eighteenth-Century Celebrity?, Nelson: A Great British Hero?; Queen Victoria, the First Royal Rebel?; Royal Scandals through the Ages, on the Queen Victoria Cruise Ship, Mediterranean Delights Voyage.

Wednesday 9th July at 7pm: 'The History Girls', with Alison Weir, Tracey Borman and Sarah Gristwood, Millers Academy of Arts and Sciences, 28a Hereford Road, London W2

Saturday 19-Sunday 20 July, 'Emma Hamilton: England’s Mistress', English Heritage, Festival of History, Kelmarsh Hall, Warwickshire, www.english-heritage.org

Sunday 14th September at 3pm: Kate talks with Anne-Marie Minhall on Classic FM's 'The Guest List'.

Tuesday 16th September at 7pm, Emma Hamilton, from Poverty to Celebrity, Ealing Library, Ealing

Wednesday 17th September at 7pm: 'Who's the Greatest Monarch', speaking for Queen Victoria, Kensington Library
 
Thursday 18th September at 7pm:
Launch of 'Becoming Queen' at Waterstones, Notting Hill Gate, Notting Hill

Sunday 21st September at 4pm: Kate appears on Classic FM's 'The Guestlist', with Anne-Marie Miniver

Monday 22 September at 3.30: Kate signs books at Hatchards, Piccadilly.

Wednesday 24 September at 9.30 am: Kate discusses 'Becoming Queen' on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour

Saturday 27th September at 2.30pm: ‘Princess Charlotte’, Windsor Festival.

Saturday 27 September at 10pm: 'Emma Hamilton's Attitudes  - with a life performance of the Attitudes', Shoreditch Town Hall, Last Tuesday Society Basement Experience

Tuesday 7th October at 7.30pm: Queen Victoria: the First Royal Rebel, Wimbledon LitFest.

Wednesday 8th October at 7.30pm: Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and the Attitudes, with a Live Performance of the Attitudes, Sutton Library, Sutton

Wednesday 15th October at 1pm: Queen Victoria: Royal Rebellions, Morley Literature Festival Literary Lunch, Morley

Thursday 23rd October at 2.00pm: 'Scarlet Women: Mistresses in History', with Tracey Borman, The Electric Theatre, Guildford Book Festival

Wednesday 29th October at 2pm: Emma Hamilton: from Poverty to Celebrity, University of the Third Age, Sevenoaks

Sunday 9th November at 2.30pm: 'Emma Hamilton: From Poverty to Celebrity', Burton Manor College, The Village, Burton, Neston, Cheshire, CH64 1SJ

Friday 21 November at 1pm: 'Queen Victoria'. Kate hosts the prizegiving at Spalding High School, Lincolnshire

Thursday 27th November: Kate signs at Hatchards Christmas Customer Evening, Hatchards Book Shop, Piccadilly.

Friday 28 November at 7pm: 'The Original People's Princess', Soroptomists Literary Dinner, Stone Manor, Bromsgrove

Saturday 29 November: 'Victoria: Rebel Princess', Hay Festival Winter Weekend, Hay

2009

Wednesday 23 January at 7.30 pm: 'Victoria on Screen: Biography and Film', Dining Room, Kensington Palace.

18 February 2008 at 12.30pm: 'Queen Victoria: Rebel Princess', Chelsea Luncheon Club, The Sloane Club, Sloane Street

Thursday March 6th at 7.00pm: 'Victoria and Albert: Love and History', Essex Literary Festival.

Saturday 25th April: 'Scarlet Women', with Alison Weir, Sarah Gristwood and Tracy Borman, Scarborough Literature Festival

2007

Friday 1st June: Emma Hamilton: England's Mistress. The Hay Festival. www.hayfestival.com

Tuesday 12th June at 2pm: Writing Biography, at Ursuline High School, Wimbledon.

Wednesday 27th June at 6.30pm: ‘Emma Hamilton and Biography’, Chelsea Library, Kings Road

Thursday 12th July: ‘Emma Hamilton: England’s Mistress’, Ways With Words Festival Dartington Hall. www.wayswithwords.co.uk/dartington

Friday 20 and Saturday 21st July: 'Lady Hamilton's Attitudes' - with a live performance of the Attitudes. The Port Elliot Lit Fest, Cornwall.
www.porteliotlitfest.com

Saturday 11th August: 'Lady Hamilton's Attitudes' - with a live performance of the Attitudes. The Bohemia Arts Festival, Kent. www.bohemiafestival.co.uk

Saturday 11th August: 'Emma Hamilton- England's Mistress' - an illustrated talk. The Bohemia Arts Festival, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
www.bohemiafestival.co.uk

Saturday 6th October at 7pm: ‘Emma Hamilton, Celebrity and the Attitudes’ -with a live performance of the Attitudes. Sevenoaks Literary Celebration. www.sevenoaksliterarycelebration.org.uk

Tuesday 9th October at 7pm: Wimbledon Literary Festival. 'Emma Hamilton's Attitudes'. With a live performance of the Attitudes. Merton Abbey Millls. www.mertonabbeymills.com

Thursday 11th October at 12.30pm: ‘Emma Hamilton, England’s Mistress and me’. Chester Literary Festival Lunch. www.chester-literature-festival.org.uk

Monday 15th October at 10.20am: ‘Emma Hamilton and her eighteenth-century life’
University of the Third Age. Hampstead Town Hall.

Wednesday 17th October: 'Emma and Nelson' in 'Love and History', Waterstones High Street Kensington.

Saturday 20th October: 'Emma Hamilton: England's Mistress', Wellesbourne Hotel, Warwickshire

Thursday 8th November at 7.30 pm: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and the Attitudes - with a live performance of the Attitudes'. Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, London

Wednesday 14th November at 7pm: 'This House Believes that Prizes are Bad for
the Arts' - speaking against. The English Speaking Union, Dartmouth House,
37 Charles Street, London W1J 5ED

Thursday 15th November at 7pm: Interviewing Simon Sebag Montefiore and Adam Zamoyski, Waterstones High Street Kensington

Friday 29th November at 7pm: Signing at Hatchards Christmas Customer
Evening, Hatchards, Piccadilly

Thursday 6th December at 7.30pm: 'Emma Hamilton', Neston Library Centenary
Celebrations, Neston Library, Cheshire

Thursday 26th December at 10am: Kate hosts the 'History Girls' Party for the Woman's Hour Mistresses Special.

 

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