This event takes place in the church and will include refreshments. FREE with retiring collection. Registration requested to help give indication of numbers attending. 

https://kingcharleschurch.churchsuite.com/events/v8e2mqiy

Simon Thurley is a leading historian who has written some thirteen single author history books and many other scholarly articles and pieces for general readership. His primary area of interest is English architecture.

His most recent books are a two-volume project telling the story of royal building, patronage and social life at the courts of the Tudors and Stuarts. Houses of Power (2017) and Palaces of Revolution (2021), which was winner of the Samuel Pepys Award in 2023 and was described in the Times Literary Supplement as "an important addition to knowledge not merely for historians of art and architecture but for all people interested in the Stuart period in general… a splendid achievement, which serves several different branches of history at once, as well as those who appreciate a clear and lively literary style."

Professor Thurley served as Chair of English Heritage between 2002 and 2015, and in 2021 was appointed Chair of the National Heritage Memorial Fund. He is Visiting Professor of the Built Environment at Gresham College and Honorary Fellow and Visiting Professor of London Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London.