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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 Queen of Historical Fiction
(2020) Hilary Mantel: ‘I think of writing as the arena of peril’
(2020 Hilary Mantel: ‘I’ve got quite amused at people saying I have writer’s block. I’ve been like a factory!’
(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”
(2017) Part One: The Creative Process: Hilary Mantel - Tin House, Part Two: The Creative Process Interview with Hilary Mantel | The Iowa Review
(2015) Paris Review - Hilary Mantel, The Art of Fiction No. 226 - paywall
(2015) The Verb with Hilary Mantel - BBC Sounds
(2015) Just like us, only bloodier - 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) 'The story just picked me up and pulled me with it. Each scene left me drained' | The Independent
(2012) ‘Everything I make up has to be plausible’
(2012) She-wolf: Hilar Mantel interviewed by Lynn Barber - paywall
(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) Hilary Mantel: The history woman | The Independent
(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
(2009) Hilary Mantel: 'I am sympathetic to politicians' | The Independent
(2009) Wolf Hall wins 2009 Man Booker prize - paywall
For more Mantel interviews see here.
Related Articles
(2022) Hilary Mantel: “The writer occupies both past and present. She is never absent from the story” - New Statesman - paywall
(2015) Hilary Mantel · How to Be Tudor: Can a King Have Friends? - paywall
(2012) Hilary Mantel: How I came to write Wolf Hall | The Booker Prizes
(2012) Anne Boleyn: witch, bitch, temptress, feminist | Fiction | The Guardian
(2009) The other king | Hilary Mantel | The Guardian
Nonfiction
‘The Wolf Hall Picture Book’ by Ben Miles, George Miles, and Hilary Mantel
Holbein's Sir Thomas More by Hilary Mantel and Xavier F. Salomon
‘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
ds 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) Hilary Mantel and the Historical Novel | By Theory Possessed | Issues | The Hedgehog Review
(2023) Unravelling the Complexities of Tudor England in Hilary Mantel's Novels
(2022) Hilary Mantel, Historian - Boston Review
(2020) The Mysterious “Sweating Sickness” in Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” Trilogy and the Private Country of Illness | The New Yorker - paywall
(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
(2020 The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel | Financial Times — ‘majestic and poetic’ - paywall
(2020) The Mirror and the Light: Hilary Mantel gets as close to the real Thomas Cromwell as any historian
(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
(2009) The benefit of the doubt: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel | The Spectator - paywall
(2009) The Booker favourite who dared to put on her armour | The Spectator - paywall
Longreads, Profiles & Tributes
(2023) How My Friend Hilary Mantel Got Inside People’s Minds ‹ Literary Hub
(2022) Remembering Hilary Mantel | The Huntington
(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
(2014) Arts Review | Wolf Hall; Bring Up The Bodies at the RSC - The TLS
Wolf Hall on screen
(2024) How Hilary Mantel’s genius shaped Wolf Hall after her death - paywall
(2024) The Mirror and the Light: crisis of sovereignty and national identity makes a rich stage for the present
(2015) Wolf Hall Q&A with Hilary Mantel and Claire Foy | BFI
(2015) “Wolf Hall” and “The Casual Vacancy” Reviews | The New Yorker - paywall
Academic Works: Available with Login or Purchase
Papers, Articles & Theses
(2024) “The dead do not negotiate”: Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, and Britain’s obsession with history by Christine Lehnen
(2023) Creating Cromwell: an analysis of the historical novel’s position and potentiality through a study of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy by Anne-Marie Harvatt
(2023) Writing the concubine: Anne Boleyn, Eustace Chapuys and popular historiography in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy by Laura Saxton
(2022) View of Hilary Mantel’s Re-appropriation of Whig Historiography: A Reading of The Wolf Hall Trilogy in the Context of Brexit by José i. Prieto-Arranz
(2022) ‘The Erasures, the Silences Where There Should Have Been Evidence’: Dismantling Archived History and Dwelling Experience Within the Works of Hilary Mantel by Lily Ruby Margaret Hulatt
(2022) Historical Perspectives in the Novels of Hilary Mantel by Dr. Kumud
(2022) Historical Fiction and Hilary Mantel by Parimala Gudala & Prof. P. Rajendra Karmarkar
(2021) The Blacksmiths Son from Putney: From Rags to Riches in Tudor England by Remus Racolta
(2020) The Human Pared Away: Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell as an Archetype of Legal Pragmatism by David Kenny
(2020) Kind King or Tyrannical Ruler? An Analysis of Hilary Mantel’s Henry VIII in Wolf Hall and Bringing up the Bodies by Amanda S. Nicholson
(2020) Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades | Contemporary Women's Writing | Oxford Academic by Eileen Pollard
(2020) Review of The Mirror and the Light | The Royal Vagina by Charis Caputo
(2019) Wolf Hall and moral personhood by Nora Hämäläinen
(2018) Experimentalism in the Novels of Hilary Mantel by Hemant Ramesh Deokar
(2017) Hilary Mantel's Provisionality. Doctor of Philosophy thesis by Victoria Bennett
(2017) Make or Mar: Hilary Mantel’s Re-Imagining of Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall by Niki Liebregts
(2016) Where the Ghosts of Meaning Are: Haunting and Spectrality in the Work of Hilary Mantel by Lucy Madeleine Arnold
(2015) The Translation of Cultural References in Historical Fiction: A Case Study of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall by Suzanne de Jong
(2015) Elizabeth Barton’s Claim: Feminist Defiance in Wolf Hall by Robinson Murphy (also on Jstor)
(2014) The Dramatic Role of the Narrator in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Audio Book
(2014) Hilary Mantel’s Anne Boleyn: Locating a Body of Evidence by Dana Roders
(2013) Review of ‘Bring Up the Bodies’: "What Does Henry Want?" by Jessica Jernigan
(2013) Bring on the Books: The Man Booker Prize for 2012 by Merritt Moseley
(2010) 'Homo Homini Lupus': A Note on Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall by P. Suneetha
(2009) the state of letters 429 - margins of fact and fiction - the booker prize 2009 by Merritt Moseley
Academic Books & Chapters
(2019) ‘Reading Hilary Mantel : haunted decades’ by Lucy Arnold, at Bloomsbury
(2019) ‘Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel: An Elliptical Dialogue with the Thinking of Jacques Derrida’ by Eileen Pollard, at Routledge or online.
(2018) ‘Hilary Mantel: Contemporary Critical Perspectives’ by Eileen Pollard, Dr Ginette Carpenter, at Waterstones or Bloomsbury.
(2018) “Historical Fiction” by Catherine Riley, Chapter 10 of ‘Feminism and Women’s Writing: An Introduction’.
(2017) “Hilary Mantel: Raising the Dead, Speaking the Truth” by Lisa Fletcher, Chapter 3 of ‘The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000’.
(2017) “Historical Representations: Reality Effects: The Historical Novel and the Crisis of Fictionality in the First Decade of the Twenty-first Century” by Leigh Wilson, Chapter 5 of The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
(2013) “The Historical Novel Today, or, Is It Still Possible?” Part 2, Chapter 3 of The Antinomies of Realism by Frederic Jameson
For more writing about Mantel, see here.
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
‘The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800’ by Lawrence Stone
Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2
Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Thomas Cromwell
The Life of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish
Websites
Tudor Times
The Tudor Travel GuideThe Tudor Society
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise & Fall of Henry VIII’s Henchman | HistoryExtra
Thomas Cromwell: the best Italian in all England - paywall
Thomas Cromwell Facts: Who Was Henry VIII's "Faithful Servant"? | HistoryExtra
Thomas Cromwell's death – a rapid descent from the pinnacle of power
Prince Arthur, Catherine of Aragon, and Henry VIII: a story of early Tudor triumph and tragedy
Henry VIII’s six wives: your guide to the Tudor king's queen consorts
Henry VIII's savage Reformation | HistoryExtra
Henry VIII and the scourge of papal power | HistoryExtra
Podcasts
Thomas Cromwell: the triumph and tragedy of Henry VIII's right-hand man
Great Lives, Thomas Cromwell - BBC Radio 4
Not Just the Tudors. Wolf Hall: Who's Who? ft. Lauren Mackay
In Our Time - Catherine of Aragon - BBC Sounds
Dan Snow's History Hit: Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
The Six Wives of Henry VIII–The Rest Is History – Apple Podcasts