Was John Dudley, sometime owner of Dudley Castle the acquisitive schemer that historians have made him out to be?  In my book A Crown for Staffordshire I've given a chapter to the man who put the unfortunate, tragic and undoubtedly innocent sixteen year old Lady Jane Grey on the throne of England for nine days back in the 16th century. In my opinion John Dudley wasn't the power crazy, grasping schemer that historians would have us believe and I reckon he's had a bad press for 500 years.  I'm pretty certain that he had no intention of creating the Royal House of Dudley until young King Edward IV became terminally ill, then he found his back to the wall and his enemies braying for his blood.....!

I cater for both historical groups and more general groups with this talk and I tailor it to their differing requirements by giving either more or less of an in depth history of events, either including graphics of family trees and dates - or not..... whatever's required and I'm always happy to answer questions afterwards.  

click below to read about my other talks