Book launches are a great way to promote a new book and to celebrate the author’s achievement in publishing their work with a social event. In addition to promotion, celebration, and socialisation, book launches can either focus on the author’s work with a presentation or discussion on the book, or they can focus on the new book’s position within the field of study with a panel discussion from experts – but both usually end with a question-and-answer session with the audience.
In keeping with our goal to help make Early Modern and Medieval interests inclusive and accessible, our book launch for University of Kent Alum Dr. Eilish Gregory’s Later Stuart Queens, 1660–1735: Religion, Political Culture, and Patronage (Palgrave, Jan 2024) will combine both types of academic book launches: presentation and panel discussion, ending with the question-and-answer session.
Please see the programme below for more details about our speaker, chair, panel, and the event itself.
While we won’t have any hard copies to sell during the event, Palgrave did give EMMA an exclusive coupon code (QAP2024) for a 20% discount off the book from their website, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-38813-2
If you are interested, you can purchase it either as an ebook (£87.50 standard, £70.00 discounted) or as a hard cover book (£109.99 standard, £87.99 discounted).
The coupon code is only valid from 24 January 2024 to 24 February 2024.
This event is run by our partner, EMMA (the Early Modern and Medieval Alliance – a Kent Student Union society). If you have any queries about this event or joining the society, please get in contact with Jessica Becker (jb2259@kent.ac.uk).
Event Speaker: Dr. Eilish Gregory (Durham University)
The Little Company of Mary Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Catholic Studies, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University. The speaker is an early career researcher who is currently researching the early history of the Little Company of Mary women religious nursing order at Durham University. Her background is in early modern British Catholic history, primarily in religion, politics, and culture. Her first monograph Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty was published in 2021, and she has also published on a diverse set of topics in early modern history in journals including Seventeenth Century Journal and Parliamentary History, and in edited collections published by Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge.