Wolf Hall Further Resources
Hilary Mantel: In Her Own Words
Lectures
(2017) BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Hilary Mantel - Available now
Interviews
(2022) Hilary Mantel on The Wolf Hall Trilogy and saying goodbye to Thomas Cromwell
(2021) Interview with Hilary Mantel - Walter Scott Prize Shortlist Spotlight
(2021) Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light, with Barrie Hardymon
(2021) Hilary Mantel: I have more ideas than years left | CNN
(2021) Talking Politics - Hilary Mantel
(2021) Word of Mouth - Hilary Mantel in conversation with Michael Rosen - BBC Sounds
(2020) Hilary Mantel: The Waterstones Interview - Wolf Hall Trilogy
(2020) Hilary Mantel on The Mirror and the Light
(2020) Southbank Centre’s Book Podcast: Hilary Mantel – The Mirror and the Light
(2020) Maximum Shelf: The Mirror & the Light (scroll down for interview)
(2020) Hilary and Diarmaid MacCulloch at Launde Abbey (Part 1) (Part 2)
(2020) Inside the Head of Thomas Cromwell
(2019) The Road to Wolf Hall – The Frick Collection
(2019) BorderKitchen interview Hilary Mantel about The Mirror and the Light
(2019) Hilary Mantel: 'History is a process, not a locked box'
(2018) Hilary Mantel: Bring Up the Bodies - World Book Club
(2017) “I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There”
(2015) Paris Review - Hilary Mantel, The Art of Fiction No. 226 - paywall
(2014) Hilary Mantel in conversation with Harriet Walter
(2013) Hilary Mantel and Fay Weldon in conversation at Bath Spa University in 2013
(2013) Hilary Mantel interview: 'There isn't a quota system for winning book prizes'
(2012) Hilary Mantel talks about Anne Boleyn
(2012) Hilary Mantel talks about Thomas Cromwell
(2012?) Hilary Mantel Interview on Bring Up the Bodies | Man Booker Prize Book Winner
(2012) Booker winner Hilary Mantel on 'opening up the past'
(2012) Maximum Shelf: Bring Up the Bodies (scroll down for interview)
(2009) Short Film: 'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel | The Booker Prize
(2009) 'I accumulated an anger that would rip a roof off' | Hilary Mantel | The Guardian
(2009) The Exchange: Hilary Mantel | The New Yorker - paywall
(2009) London Review Bookshop Podcast: Wolf Hall & Sacred Hearts. Hilary Mantel & Sarah Dunant
(2009/2023) In Conversation: Jane Haynes and Hilary Mantel - The London Magazine
(2009) Rules of Evidence at LSE
Related Articles
(2022) Hilary Mantel: “The writer occupies both past and present. She is never absent from the story” - New Statesman - paywall
(2012) Hilary Mantel: How I came to write Wolf Hall | The Booker Prizes
(2015) Hilary Mantel · How to Be Tudor: Can a King Have Friends? - paywall
(2009) The other king | Hilary Mantel | The Guardian
Nonfiction
‘The Wolf Hall Picture Book’ by Ben Miles, George Miles, and Hilary Mantel
‘A Memoir of My Former Self’ by Hilary Mantel
‘Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir’ by Hilary Mantel
‘Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books’ by Hilary Mantel
Documentaries
Words by Others
Conference: Overflow of Meaning: Reading and Re-reading Hilary Mantel at The Huntington Library (2021)
Session 1: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Session 2: Writing the Marginal
Session 3: Making History
Session 4: Mantel and Non-fiction
The Wolf Hall Weekend - the event has passed but they continue to publish brilliant articles
Wolf Hall Weekend substack
The Bard and the Dame - Hilary Mantel’s relationship to Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the First Folio - Wolf Hall Weekend
Hilary’s Horrible Henry VIII - Wolf Hall Weekend
Wolf Hall Weekend Podcast - Special Guest Dr Owen Emmerson
Articles & Reviews of the Wolf Hall Trilogy
(2023) Unravelling the Complexities of Tudor England in Hilary Mantel's Novels
(2020) Hubris and Delusion at the End of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor Trilogy | The New Yorker - paywall
(2020) Colin Burrow · Charm with Menaces: ‘The Mirror and the Light’ - paywall
(2020) Ghost Story | Clair Wills | The New York Review of Books - paywall
(2012) Invitation To a Beheading | The New Yorker - paywall
(2012) Colin Burrow · On your way, phantom: ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ - paywall
(2012) Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel - review by Margaret Atwood | The Guardian
(2012) In the Court of a Monster | Stanley Wells | The New York Review of Books - paywall
(2012) On Hilary Mantel’s Booker Win | The New Yorker - paywall
(2009) Colin Burrow · How to Twist a Knife: Wolf Hall
(2009) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel – review
(2009) How It Must Have Been | Stephen Greenblatt | The New York Review of Books - paywall
(2009) Tudor Tales | The New Yorker - paywall
(2009) "Wolf Hall," Part One of Two | The New Yorker - paywall
Longreads, Profiles & Tributes
(2023) How My Friend Hilary Mantel Got Inside People’s Minds ‹ Literary Hub
(2022) Hilary Mantel Never Stopped Being Haunted
(2022) Hilary Mantel remembered: ‘She was the queen of literature’
(2023) Hilary Mantel: A Life in Writing
(2022) Celebrating Hilary Mantel | The Booker Prize
(2022) Hilary Mantel’s Life with Ghosts | The New Yorker
(2022) Hilary Mantel, Prize-Winning Author of Historical Fiction, Dies at 70
(2022) Hilary Mantel (1952–2022) | Jenny Uglow | The New York Review of Books - paywall
(2022) Hilary Mantel, Historian - Boston Review
(2012) The dead are real - Hilary Mantel’s imagination - paywall
Books
‘Wolf Hall Companion’ by Lauren Mackay
Wolf Hall onstage
(2024) Ghosts, Spirits and Muses: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall on stage by Aurora Dawson-Hunte
(2015) How to Play 'Wolf Hall' | Hilary Mantel | The New York Review of Books - paywall(2015) Bringing “Wolf Hall” to the Stage | The New Yorker - paywall
Wolf Hall on screen
(2015) Wolf Hall Q&A with Hilary Mantel and Claire Foy | BFI
(2015) “Wolf Hall” and “The Casual Vacancy” Reviews | The New Yorker - paywall
History
Books
‘Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch
‘The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn’ by Eric Ives
‘Henry VIII and the Men who Made Him’ by Tracy Borman
‘Tudor England’ by Lucy Wooding
‘Black Tudors: The Untold Story’ by Miranda Kaufmann
‘Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of Henry VIII’ by Gareth Russell
‘How to Be a Tudor’ by Ruth Goodman