About this Event
Join us for this fascinating interview with the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Templars and The Crusaders, Dan Jones.
Dan's epic new history, Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages, tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.
It is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD 410, to the first contacts between the old and new worlds in the sixteenth century.
It shows how, from a state of crisis and collapse, the West was rebuilt and came to dominate the entire globe. The book identifies three key themes that underpinned the success of the West: commerce, conquest and Christianity.
Across 16 chapters, blending his trademark gripping narrative style with authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage in this story, successive western powers thrived by attracting - or stealing - the most valuable resources, ideas and people from the rest of the world. It casts new light on iconic locations - Rome, Paris, Venice, Constantinople - and it features some of history's most famous and notorious men and women.
This is a book written about - and for - an age of profound change, and it asks the biggest questions about the West both then and now. Where did we come from? What made us? Where do we go from here? Find out in this fascinating interview with the author conducted by Richard Foreman.
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Come along, enjoy a glass of wine and what promises to be a fantastic treat for all history buffs.
About the speaker:
is a master of popular narrative history, with the priceless ability to write page-turning narrative history underpinned by authoritative scholarship. Dan Jones is a bestselling historian, TV presenter and award-winning journalist. His books, which have sold more than a million copies worldwide, include The Plantagenets, The Hollow Crown, Magna Carta and The Templars. The Plantagenets was adapted into a four-part Channel 5 television series and The Templars has sold more than 150,000 copies in Head of Zeus’ English language editions, and rights in twelve languages.
In 2018, Dan co-authored the best-selling book The Colour of Time with Marina Amaral.
Dan is a broadcaster, award-winning journalist and pioneer of the resurgence of interest in medieval history. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was tutored by David Starkey. He lives in London.
About the Festival and the event:
This year we are presenting the London History Festival in a series of 'blended' events - meaning the talks will take place in the Kensington library lecture hall in front of a live audience, and will at the same time be streamed to those joining us online.
*Please note that the concessionary rate of £3 per ticket is offered to pensioners, students and people on benefits.
**Tickets will also be on sale in Kensington Central Library starting 1st November.
***Online tickets are free and can be obtained via a .
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kensington Central Library, Lecture Theatre, 12 Phillimore Walk, United Kingdom
GBP 3.00 to GBP 5.00