New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603
10 best books like New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 (Susan Brigden): England Under the Tudors, Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London, The Oxford History of Britain, Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor, Tudor England, Mary Tudor: A Life, Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England, The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066-1284, The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages, Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070
First published in 1955 and never out of print, this wonderfully written text by one of the great historians of the twentieth century has guided generations of students through the turbulent history of Tudor England.
Now in its third edition, England Under the Tudors charts a historical period...
| Author | Liza Picard |
| ISBN | 0312325665 |
This picture of the London of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) is the result of Liza Picard's curiosity about the practical details of daily life that almost every history book ignores. As seen in her two previous, highly acclaimed books-Restoration London and Dr. Johnson's London-she has immersed herself...
With over a half-million copies already sold, The Oxford History of Britain is considered the classic single-volume history of the British Isles. Covering two thousand years of British history, the book tells the story of Britain and her peoples from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day....
| Author | Eamon Duffy |
| ISBN | 0300152167 |
The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their religious beliefs seared the rule of “Bloody Mary”...
| Author | John Guy |
| ISBN | 0192852132 |
John Guy here provides the most complete narrative history of Tudor England in more than 30 years. A compelling account of political and religious developments from the advent of the Tudors in the 1460s to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, his authoritative study discusses the far-reaching changes...
Few English monarchs have a worse reputation than Mary Tudor. She has been seen both as a religious fanatic who tried against the will of her people to reverse the course of the Reformation and as the pawn of her husband, Philip II of Spain - her infatuation with whom led her to betray England's vital interests.
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Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
| Author | David Cressy |
| ISBN | 0198207883 |
From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the lifecycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the Protestantism of the reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and death were graced with elaborate...
| Author | David Arscott Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0195220005 |
The years from 1066-the Norman conquest of England-to 1284-the English conquest of Wales--were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In this comprehensive synthesis canvassing the peoples, economies, religion, languages, and political leadership of medieval Britain, David Carpenter weaves...
| Author | Miri Rubin |
| ISBN | 0140148256 |
There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V, the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary...
The enormous hoard of beautiful gold military objects found in a field in Staffordshire has focused huge attention on the mysterious world of 7th and 8th century Britain. Clearly the product of a sophisticated, wealthy, highly militarized society, the objects beg innumerable questions about how...
The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne
| Author | Derek Wilson |
| ISBN | 0786714697 |
In the political ferment of 16th-century England, one family above all others was at the troubled center of court and council. Throughout the Tudor Age the Dudley family was never far from controversy. They were universally condemned as scheming, ruthless, overly ambitious charmers, with three...
An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409
| Author | David Mattingly |
| ISBN | 0140148221 |
The definitive history of Roman Britain
In the first major narative history of the subject in more than a generation, David Mattingly brings life in Britain during four hundred years of Roman domination into vivid relief. Drawing on a wealth of new research and cutting through the myths and...
| Author | Mark A. Kishlansky |
| ISBN | 0140148272 |
The seventeenth century, writes Mark Kishlansky, was "a wheel of transformation in perpetual motion," a period of political and religious upheaval that defined the nation for decades to come and remains critical for understanding the nation today.
Beginning with the accession of James...
| Author | P.F. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0141011750 |
"Hope and Glory is an examination of the political, social and economic changes that transformed Britain throughout the twentieth century - considering how issues such as jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welfare have shaped the society we live in." For this second edition, Peter...
| Author | Robert Hutchinson |
| ISBN | 0297846426 |
'gripping... Hutchinson tells his story with infectious relish and vividly evokes the politics and personalities of this extraordinary decade.' (Anne Somerset LITERARY REVIEW)
'Hutchinson tells the horrible story admirably and compellingly, acknowledging Cromwell's rare abilities,...
| Author | Linda Colley |
| ISBN | 0300059256 |
The current, and ongoing for the foreseeable future, business of Brexit adds a further facet to this book. Identity, group identity, Benedict Anderson's (view spoiler)[ that loyal and true citizen Benedict Arnold always comes to mind first as the author of that book requiring me to check and distinguish...
| Author | Elizabeth Norton |
| ISBN | 1848685823 |
Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII. The sixth wife of Henry VIII was also the most married queen of England, outliving three husbands before finally marrying for love. Catherine Parr was enjoying her freedom after her first two arranged marriages when she caught...
| Author | Mike Ashley |
| ISBN | 0786711043 |
In one portable volume, A Brief History of British Kings and Queens offers a royal biographical A–Z, its pages lavish in details on all the rulers of the kingdoms within the British Isles, together with their wives or consorts, pretenders, usurpers, and regents, from Queen Boadicea of the early Britons...
| Author | Carolly Erickson |
| ISBN | 0312168586 |
St. Martin's Griffin is proud to reissue acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson's lives of the Tudor monarchs.
In this full-scale popular biography of Henry VIII, Carolly Erickson re-creates the extravagant life and times of one of history's most complex and fascinating men.
Based...
| Author | James Evans |
| ISBN | 1605986119 |
In the spring of 1553, three ships sailed north-east from London into uncharted waters. The scale of their ambition was breathtaking. Drawing on the latest navigational science and the new spirit of enterprise and discovery sweeping the Tudor capital, they sought a northern passage to Asia and its...
| Author | Stephen Alford |
| ISBN | 1608190099 |
In a Europe aflame with wars of religion and dynastic conflicts, Elizabeth I came to the throne of a realm encircled by menace. To the great Catholic powers of France and Spain, England was a heretic pariah state, a canker to be cut away for the health of the greater body of Christendom. Elizabeth's government,...
| Author | Jasper Ridley |
| ISBN | 1841194719 |
Beginning with the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army at Milford in 1485 to depose Richard III, and ending with the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this incisive and informative brief history provides a vivid account of Englands most eventful and contradictory age. Its presentation of...
In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks...
