Authors Sean McGlynn and Catherine Hanley will be at a conference (Strode College, Street, Somerset) on 28th March from 9:30am-4:30pm. Book tickets with Strode Theatre box office: 01458 442846 or online: www.strodetheatre.org.uk
Featuring expert speakers from a range of universities and organisations, this conference is a great opportunity to find out about King John, the road to Magna Carta and life in England at this time.
Sean McGlynn - The Road to Magna Carta (Plymouth University at Strode College)
Sean McGlynn lectures in History for Plymouth University at Strode College, where he teaches an undergraduate module on King John, and also for The Open University. He is a regular contributor to History Today, BBC History Magazine and leading academic journals. His books include King John: Tyrant of Magna Carta (forthcoming 2015), Kill Them All! Cathars and Carnage in the Albigensian Crusade (2015), Blood Cries Afar: The Forgotten Invasion of England 1216 (2011) and By Sword and Fire: Cruelty and Atrocity in Medieval Warfare (2010). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Catherine Hanley - Arms and Armour in the Age of Magna Carta (Historical novelist/scholar)
Catherine Hanley is a historical novelist and researcher specialising in the Central Middle Ages. She writes
historical fiction under the name of C B Hanley. Her successful series of novels is set in the period of Magna
Carta: The Sins of the Father (2012), The Bloody City (2013) and Whited Sepulchres (2014). More are to follow.
She is also author of War and Combat 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature (2003)