Hear a talk about Elizabethan England by local historian Jessie Childs

The Upper Room Winter Lecture Series comes to an end on Wednesday April 29 with a talk by a prize winning historian about Elizabethan England.

Space is limited, so in order to guarantee yourself a seat for this lecture please telephone Alyson on 020 8740 5688 or email her on: uradmin@theupperroom.org.uk.

The talk, titled God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England is by Jessie Childs.

Jessie gained a first in history at Oxford in 1999 and her first book, Henry VIII’s Last Victim, the life and times of Henry Howard was critically acclaimed and won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in 2007.

God’s Traitors is her second book, and has also been widely praised. She was recently described by Charles Spencer in the Sunday Times Magazine as “the best historian we have”.

Jessie lives in Hammersmith with her husband and two daughters.

The lecture will take place in St Saviour’s Church, Cobbold Road. W12, from 8pm - 9pm.

All the speakers in this series have given their time free to support The Upper Room, a charity based at St Saviour which has been been working to help socially disadvantaged people in London since 1990, including homeless people, economic migrants and ex-offenders.

January 21, 2015