Late at the Library: A Night with Henry VIII

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Circulus + Quintessential + Andrew Lawrence-King + Alamire

Wednesday, 24 June

British Library, 96 Euston Road, Kings Cross, NW1 2DB

Live Music: , Folk

How Much: £10.00 (Tickets)
Forsooth nuncle, a rightly splendid evening for royalty and thy closest and dearest. Tarry and feast, sire, this eve at the esteemed full bookish comely venue that is The British Library.

Right, enough ye olde twaddle, what's going on? Well, June 24th is exactly 500 years since the coronation of Henry VIII, and the British Library is hosting a little knees-up to celebrate. There's live music from the incomparable Circulus as well as harpists, wind ensembles, jesters, jugglers and comedians.

Plus the ticket price includes admission to the Library's brilliant Henry VIII exhibition - a pox be upon all ye who doth miss this one.

Click here to read Tom's review of Henry VIII: Man & Monarch at the British Library, April 2009.
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