| Event type: | Monthly meeting |
| Date: | Mon 8 Jul 2024 |
| Time: | 10:00am - 12:00pm |
| Venue: | St Margaret’s United Reformed Church, N3 1BD |
Bayeux Tapestry Museum/Wikimedia Commons
Born in around 1001, Edward the Confessor – England’s penultimate Anglo-Saxon king – also had French heritage: William the Conqueror was a cousin. In this talk, historian Eleanor Levy will explore Edward’s reign, his pious and hesitant personality and how the turbulence of his youth and middle years affected him, and also Edward’s magnificent legacy of Westminster Abbey, which remains at the heart of English national life a thousand years later.
Eleanor holds a degree in modern and medieval history from UCL, and for two decades she taught courses on the history of London and the English monarchy to students at Regent’s College, London. Now retired, she currently runs a history group at Hampstead Garden Suburb U3A.