Read more by Helen Berry in the ‘Wonders and Marvels’ blog about the witnesses who were called in the court case involving the castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2011/12/the-castrato-and-his-wife.html
The Castrato and His Wife – reviewed in History Today
Read Mary Laven’s review of The Castrato and His Wife in History Today http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/11/castrato-and-his-wife
The Castrato and His Wife – Longlisted for ‘Book of the Year’
The Castrato and His Wife has been longlisted for the Longman/History Today ‘Book of the Year’. http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/11/longman-history-today-book-year-longlist
Why History Says Gay People Can’t Marry: Nor Can Anyone Else*
Oxford University Press blog – Why History Says Gay People Can’t Marry: Nor Can Anyone Else* *(unless they have kids of their own)
Book of the Week
The Castrato and His Wife is Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’, starting Monday 3 October. Read by Greta Scacchi and broadcast daily at 9.45am, repeated at 00.30am. For schedule and podcasts see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qftk/episodes/upcoming
Voices from the Old Bailey
Listen again to Voices from the Old Bailey, presented by Amanda Vickery. In Programme 2, ‘Sexual Subcultures’, she talks to Helen Berry Continue reading Voices from the Old Bailey
The Castrato and His Wife
Book Signing, Edinburgh
Book signing at Blackwells, Edinburgh
Wednesday 26th October, 2011
‘Castrati and Other Curiosities in Georgian England’
‘Castrati and Other Curiosities in Georgian England’
Notes and Letters, King’s Place, London
Sunday 9th October, 2011
Litchfield Literary festival
Talk at Litchfield Literary festival, Saturday 8th October, 2011