Crowning a Nation: Coronation and Historical Memory
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Coronations follow deep and meaningful ancient traditions, join Historian Helen Carr to explore their origins in this special lecture celebrating a year since the King's Coronation.
Helen Carr is an award nominated historian specialising in English medieval history. Described by Dan Jones as ‘one of the most exciting voices in narrative history’, Helen has built her career in making medieval history exciting and accessible whilst rooted in scholarship.
Helen is the author of the Sunday Times best-selling, The Red Prince: John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, one of the Sunday Times best books of 2021 and shortlisted for the prestigious Elizabeth Longford Prize. She is also the co-author and editor of What is History, Now? with Suzannah Lipscomb. Helen’s next book, a new history of the fourteenth century and the last Plantagenets, will be published by Hutchinson Heinemann (Penguin Random House) in 2025.
Helen writes a monthly column for BBC History Magazine and contributes to the TLS, The Spectator, Unherd and The New Statesman. She has been a royal historian for CNN, NBC, Sky and CityTV and is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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