Creative Conversations: Isabel Stilwell
Friday 19, September, 2025, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
A co-hosted event with Portuguese Studies and Creative Conversations, historical novelist and journalist Isabel Stilwell is in conversation.
University Chapel, Main Building University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ

Isabel Stilwell is a journalist and a writer, dedicated to investigating and writing about the impressive lives of women who should not be forgotten. The great success of the historical novel Filipa de Lencastre (2007) was followed by a further twelve historical best-selling novels. Four of her novels are translated into English: Philippa of Lancaster: English Princess, Queen of Portugal; Catherine of Braganza: the Courage of a Portuguese Infanta who Became Queen of England; D. Maria II: the Extraordinary Friendship of Mary and Victoria, Two Queens in a World of Men; and Isabel of Portugal: Duchess of Burgundy.
This event is co-hosted by Creative Conversations and Portuguese Studies at University of Glasgow.
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