We are still finalizing speakers and plans for Tudorcon 2022, but if you want to reserve your spot, now is the time to start making plans!
We will gather again in beautiful Lancaster County Pennsylvania from September 9-11 at the winery next to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire.
Speakers will include some of the leading authors, historians, and bloggers of the Tudor period, plus entertainment, new friends, a feast, and general revelry.
Get your tickets at my online shop here:
https://tudorfair.com/products/tudorcon-2022-super-early-bird
Here is the recap from 2021 to give you a taste of how the weekend will go:
After being online only in 2020, it was so wonderful to get together last weekend with friends, and talk about our shared passions of history and the Tudors. It was like coming home, and knowing that we all share a love of history immediately put us on the fast track to being best friends with all these amazing people who came from as far away as Ireland!
Some highlights: the entertainment was amazing – we had a Shakespeare impersonator, and two fabulous musical groups who entertained us in the barn while Lisa Misak (who runs the book club) handled the Tudor Trivia in the Tap Room. Plus a feast, and music from the new musical, Boleyn.
Michael Radi (who composed the musical, The King’s Legacy) talked about the legacy of Anne Boleyn in film, books, plays, musicals, and more. That follows a talk on the Tudors and Trademarks given by Rachael Dickzen. Adrienne Dillard gave a talk on writing historical fiction (one attendee took nine pages of notes!) and Carol Ann Lloyd talked about the relationship between Mary and Elizabeth. On the third day, Michael Blanding gave a new twist to the Shakespeare Authorship question, and then Janet Wertman discussed more on Seymour Shenanigans.
Meaningful conversations were held, and new friendships were born. Basically, it was magic, and I feel so privileged to be part of this group of awesome human beings.
Below are some photos from three days of amazing Tudor fun.
Huge thanks to our generous author sponsors:
Marie Macpherson – John Knox Trilogy
Sarah Kennedy – The Cross and The Crown
Lori Callan – A Second Self: Elizabeth I, My Most Remarkable Friend
Charlie Fenton – Perseverance: A Novel of Anne Boleyn & Jane Parker: The Downfall Of Two Tudor Queens?
Also to our entertainers:
Chaste Treasure
Shakespeare Approves!
Wolgemut
BOLEYN
And of course, our amazing speakers and lovely attendees!
The 13th-century German monk Meister Eckhart said that, “if the only prayer we ever said was ‘thank you’, that would be enough.” And right now all I have is gratitude for this amazing community of people that I get to be part of, and to you for trusting some stranger on the internet (me) who said that we could have a fun time spending a weekend discussing Tudor history. You made this weekend possible, and I am so very grateful!
Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast,  the original Tudor history podcast, started in 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. In 2019 she created Tudorcon, which is now a yearly event, in addition to writing books, and running TudorFair.com - a whimsical Tudor Merch shop.
She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 30 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history (how exciting when she got to interview Alison for the first time!). In addition to history, she is passionate about travel, and has lived in 3 countries and 4 states (not counting her perpetual state of confusion), and her family (who help her host her YouTube channel occasionally).
