Charles II: King, Court and Culture

A conference organised by the Society for Court Studies to mark the 350th anniversary of the Restoration.

Ronald Hutton, ‘Charles II in the Twenty-First Century’; Diana Dethloff, ‘Peter Lely and the royal image’; Karen Hearn, ‘John Michael Wright (1617-1694), "Picture Drawer in Ord[inary]"’; Robert Bucholz, ‘Restoration Courtiership:  the Evidence of Three Diaries (Pepys, Evelyn and Reresby)’; Stephen Brogan, ‘Medicine, Politics and Sin: The Rationale for the Royal Touch During the Stuart Restoration, 1660-85’; Helen Jacobsen, ‘Bringing it Home. English diplomats as cultural intermediaries, 1660-85’.

There will also be quided tours of those parts of the Royal Hospital site at Greenwich associated with Charles II.