This event took place on 7 December 2024. The information below is correct as of the publication date.
From the brutality of the battlefield to conspiracies at court – what does it take to overthrow a medieval ruler? Charlie Higson and a star-studded team of experts, Nathen Amin, Helen Castor and Lubaaba Al-Azami, take a deep dive into medieval plots, conspiracies and power.
Charlie Higson is an author, actor, comedian and writer for television and radio. He wrote the Young Bond series which has now sold over a million copies in the UK and has been translated into over 24 different languages. His TV successes include The Fast Show, Randall and Hopkirk Deceased and 2015’s Jekyll and Hyde.
Nathen Amin is an author from Wales who focuses on the fifteenth century. He is the author of The House of Beaufort (2017), Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders (2021) and Son of Prophecy: Origins of the Tudor Dynasty (2024). Nathen is a trustee of the Henry Tudor Trust and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Helen Castor is a historian and a Bye-Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her first book, Blood & Roses, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the English Association's Beatrice White Prize. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, was made into a BBC series, and The Eagle and the Hart has just been published to wide acclaim.
Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at the University of Manchester and a research fellow at the University of Liverpool. She is founding editor of the digital platform Medieval and Early Modern Orients. Her book, Traveller in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World (John Murray Press, 2024), is out now.