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Dan Jones will be with us in September to talk all about his upcoming book, Henry V!He is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of many non-fiction books, including The Plantagenets, The Templars, and Powers and Thrones. He is a renowned writer, broadcaster and journalist. He has presented dozens of TV shows, including the Netflix series Secrets of Great British Castles, and writes and hosts the podcast This is History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
There are two types of tickets; book and ticket (£25) includes a copy of the book, and redeemable (£15), the price of which can be taken away from the purchase of the book on the night.
Schedule:
6:30 doors open
45 minute talk starting at 7pm
15 minute Q&A
meet and greet/ signing
About Henry V:
The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King.
A brand-new life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian. Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare deployed Henry V as a study in youthful folly redirected to sober statesmanship. In the dark days of World War II, Henry’s victories in France were presented by British filmmakers as exemplars for a people existentially threatened by Nazism. Churchill called Henry ‘a gleam of splendour in the dark, troubled story of medieval England’, while for one modern medievalist, Henry was, quite simply, ‘the greatest man who ever ruled England’.
For Dan Jones, Henry is one of the most intriguing characters in all medieval history, but one of the hardest to pin down. He was a hardened, sometimes brutal, warrior, yet he was also creative and artistic, with a bookish temperament. He was a leader who made many mistakes, who misjudged his friends and family members, yet always seemed to triumph when it mattered. As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin, put down rebellions and secured England’s borders; in foreign diplomacy, he made England a serious player once more. Yet through his conquests in northern France, he sowed the seeds for three generations of calamity at home, in the form of the Wars of the Roses.
Dan Jones’s life of HENRY V stands out for the generous amount of space it allots to the critical first 26 years of his life before he became king. Both standalone biography and a completion of Dan Jones’s sequence of English medieval histories that began with The Plantagenets and The Hollow Crown, HENRY V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England’s greatest king.
Dan Jones said: "This is a biography I have been waiting many years to write. Henry V was considered the pinnacle and paragon of medieval kingship in his own time – and for centuries thereafter. Henry was a man of many parts – not all of which he wished the world to see. I am fascinated by his long apprenticeship, his many brushes with death and his rare ability, as king, to force his will onto his world. As a study of leadership in a time of crisis, his story seems especially meaningful right now".
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
248 Telegraph Road,Heswall,Wirral,CH60 7SG,GB, 254 Telegraph Road, Wirral, CH60 7SG, United Kingdom,Heswall, Birkenhead
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