LITFEST: Anna Whitelock: The Sun Rising

‘The Sun Rising is just the right kind of zesty treatment a neglected period needs. Fresh and fabulous’ Lucy Worsley

Long overshadowed by the glory of Elizabeth I and the fatal nadir of Charles I, the reign of the first King of Great Britain is at last told in a new light. A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts, looking west to the historic voyage of the Mayflower and east to the alliance between James and the Persian shah over a love of silk, The Sun Rising revolutionises our understanding of how global Britain was forged.

‘Fascinating, razor-sharp and shot through with uncanny resonances for the interesting times in which we live, The Sun Rising is the brilliantly realised story of James I and the men who, under his rule, sailed the world in search of power and profit. With wit and acute insight, in a page-turning read, Anna Whitelock shows us the seventeenth-century making of “Global Britain”’ Helen Castor, author of The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV

Author:

Professor Anna Whitelock is a historian, author and broadcaster. She is Professor of the History of Monarchy at City St George’s, University of London, and an international media commentator on monarchy, public history and heritage, and the Tudors and Stuarts. Her books include Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen and Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court.

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