Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 14th April 2025

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Tewkesbury Chapel, The Cross, Church Street, Tewkesbury GL20 5PA and online via Zoom

Description: Dr Ross's lecture will focus on Henry VI, king of England from 1422-61, and the ways in which his priorities as king diverged sharply from what was expected of medieval monarchs, and how his fitful engagement with government - in an age of personal kingship - was perhaps the worst of all worlds for the realm he ruled. The extent to which this led to the bloody outbreak of the Wars of the Roses will be evaluated. Dr James Ross is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. He works on English political society in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, particularly on the nobility and on kingship. He has published a number of articles as well as biographies of John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford, 1442-1513 (2011) and Henry VI: A Good, Simple and Innocent Man (2016) for the Penguin English Monarch Series.

How to book: Zoom link will be published before the event

Price: Free for members and students, £4 for guests

Tel: 01242574889

Email: histassocglos@gmail.com

Organiser: Andrea Robertson

Lecturer: Dr James Ross, University of Winchester

Region: West Midlands

Branch: Gloucestershire