David Grummitt is Head of the School of Humanities at Canterbury Christ Church University. His previous publications include The Calais Garrison: War and Military Service in England, 1436-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 2008) and A Short History of the Wars of the Roses (I.B. Tauris, 2012).

• Introduction The Lancastrian Legacy I: England 1399-1422 The Lancastrian Legacy II: France 1415-1422 ‘Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child’: England and France 1422-1429Coronations and counsel: 1429-1437Majority Rule I: patronage and the king’s household 1437-1450Majority Rule II: peace and piety 1437-1450Henry VI, Jack Cade and the Duke of York: 1450-1455Civil War and the End of the House of Lancaster: 1455-1461 Exile, Imprisonment and the Readeption: 1461-1471Epilogue: John Blacman and the Saintly King Conclusion

"David Grummitt’s latest book is a succinct, accessible and confident account of the life and reign of Henry VI. It evaluates with maturity and good sense the divergent views that have been expressed about this enigmatic king, within a distinctive context of what Dr Grummitt identifies as ‘Lancastrian’ cultural values."Ralph Griffiths, Swansea University, UK 'David Grummitt provides us with a new picture of the complicated and nuanced reign of the religious, proud, and ill King Henry VI; the political and cultural values of the Lancastrians infuse Grummitt's view of the sometimes contradictory and often elusive Henry, offering us a new vantage of the mid-fifteenth century.' Wendy Turner, Georgia Regents University, USA