Among the Wolves of Court Lauren Mackay FRHistS is an Australian historian, author, and lecturer specialising in the Tudor period and the broader early modern world.

[3][4] Her research also includes the wider realms of early modern Europe, in particular the Hapsburg Charles V, Francis I of France, and the Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent.

[5] Mackay has given talks around the UK at many venues, such as Leeds Castle[6] the National Portrait Gallery, London,[7] Hever Castle,[8] and at the 2018 BBC history weekends at York and Winchester.

[9] In 2020 she appeared in the three-part television documentary, Henry VIII and the King's men (Smithsonian Channel UK)[10] In 2021 she was a consultant and expert contributor for the BBC2 three-part series The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family, which also draws on her research on the Boleyn men.

[11] In November 2022 Mackay, along with Professors Suzannah Lipscomb and Tracy Borman, provided the historical evidence behind the reality of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's relationship in Netflix's Blood, Sex & Royalty.