Plague, struggle, regicide, famine, revolt – through the 14th century, life for folks in England was turned on its head. Historian Helen Carr charts this terribly turbulent interval via the lives of three very totally different monarchs, every with their very own concept of what it meant to wield energy. Exploring the humanity of these on the throne, she speaks to Emily Briffett to shed new mild on this pivotal interval of English historical past, and the individuals who lived via it.
Helen Carr is the writer of Sceptred Isle: A New Historical past of the Fourteenth Century (Hutchinson Heinemann, 2025)