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Jessie Childs – The Siege of Loyalty House
March 21, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Price: £12.50
Venue: The Hub at St Mary’s
It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war.
Jessie Childs recovers the shock of this conflict by plunging us into one of its most extraordinary episodes: the siege of Basing House. To the parliamentarians, the royalist stronghold was the devil’s seat. Its defenders called it Loyalty House.
Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of dozens of men, women and children caught in the crossfire, Childs weaves a thrilling tale of war and peace, terror and faith, savagery and civilisation.
Jessie Childs is an award-winning author, broadcaster and historian. The Siege of Loyalty House was a Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Economist, Spectator, Daily Express and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year. Jessie’s TV credits include the RTS Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents (BBC 2 & PBS), and BBC Four’s two series on Charles I: Downfall of a King and Killing a King. She lives in Hammersmith with her husband and two daughters.
