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Dan Jones: The Astonishing Rise of Henry V

This event took place on 23 September 2024. The information below is correct as of the publication date. Henry V reigned 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 by the likes of Shakespeare as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. Churchill called him ‘a gleam of splendour in the dark, troubled story of medieval England’. In the new biography by best-selling historian Dan Jones, Henry is fascinating but hard to pin down. He was a sometimes brutal warrior, yet also creative and artistic. He made many mistakes, yet always seemed to triumph when it mattered. As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin and secured England’s borders; in foreign diplomacy, he made England a serious player once more but his conquests in northern France sowed the seeds for generations of calamity at home, in the form of the Wars of the Roses. Dan Jones is joined in conversation by British Library Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, Julian Harrison. Dan Jones is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of many non-fiction books, including The Plantagenets, The Templars, and Powers and Thrones and now Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King. 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.