The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of York
10 best books like The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of York (David Baldwin): God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England, Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty, The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language, William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry, Edward IV, The Last White Rose: Dynasty, Rebellion and Treason. The Secret Wars against the Tudors, Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses, Richard III and the Murder in the Tower, Richard III and the Princes in the Tower, Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes
God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England
| Author | Jessie Childs |
| ISBN | 1847921566 |
A true story of plots, priest-holes and persecution and one family's battle to save Catholicism in Reformation England.
Elizabeth I criminalised Catholicism in England. For refusing to attend Anglican services her subjects faced crippling fines and imprisonment. For giving refuge to...
Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
| Author | Elizabeth Norton |
| ISBN | 1445601427 |
Divorced at ten, a mother at thirteen & three times a widow. The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen', Lady Margaret Beaufort, matriarch of the Tudors. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying...
| Author | Joseph Piercy |
| ISBN | 1843178834 |
The Story of English illustrates the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world, and of how that language evolved during the last two millennia.
Chronologically...
Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagents, knight extraordinaire, the flower of chivalry. A marvel of historical reconstruction, William Marshal is based on a biographical...
| Author | Charles Derek Ross |
| ISBN | 0300073720 |
In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with firm, judicious, and popular government. The prejudices of later historians diminished this high reputation, until recent research confirmed Edward as...
The Last White Rose: Dynasty, Rebellion and Treason. The Secret Wars against the Tudors
Putting to rest the idea that Yorkist resistance ended at Stoke Field, Seward reveals the decades of animosity between the Tudors and the Plantagenet remnant. Both Henry VII and VIII lived in almost constant suspicion of those with any trace of royal blood, leading to the "legal murders" of dozens of...
Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses
| Author | David Santiuste |
| ISBN | 1848845499 |
Indisputably the most effective general of the Wars of the Roses, Edward IV died in his bed, undefeated in battle. Yet Edward has not achieved the martial reputation of other warrior kings such as Henry V - perhaps because he fought battles against his own people in a civil war. It has also been suggested...
Richard III and the Murder in the Tower
| Author | Peter A. Hancock |
| ISBN | 0752451480 |
Richard III is accused of murdering his nephews—the "Princes in the Tower"—in order to usurp the throne of England. Since Tudor times he has been painted as the "black legend," the murderous uncle. However, the truth is much more complicated and interesting. Rather than looking at all the killings...
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
| Author | A.J. Pollard |
| ISBN | 0750930225 |
Richard III has divided opinion for over 500 years. Traditionally, he has been perceived as a villain, a bloody tyrant and the monstrous murderer of his innocent nephews. To others he was and remains a wronged victim who did his best for kingdom and family, a noble prince and enlightened statesman tragically...
Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes
| Author | Bertram Fields |
| ISBN | 0060987383 |
Notoriously immortalied by Shakespeare and historians, he is history's most infamous royal villian: Richard III, king of England from 1483 to 1485. Crazed with power and paranoia, he is generally supposed to have killed the youthful Prince of Wales and the aged Henry VI, drowned his brother in a vat...
Richard III: The Maligned King
| Author | Annette Carson |
| ISBN | 0752452088 |
In 2012 Annette Carson formed part of the team that discovered King Richard III's mortal remains, verified in 2013 by forensics including DNA matching. In response to the recent upsurge of interest, her 2009 paperback has been updated with details of the discovery plus new illustrations, and a larger...
The Flowering of the Rose
| Author | Rosemary Hawley Jarman |
| ISBN | 0752439413 |
In this superb novel, as spell-binding as any tale of high adventure, but firmly based upon contemporary records, Richard III lives again through the eyes of his intimates and the woman whose ill-starred love brought him brief joy, and her a bitter consummation. Against the background of lusty, fifteenth-century...
Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen
| Author | Amy Licence |
| ISBN | 1445609614 |
As Tudors go, Elizabeth of York is relatively unknown. Yet through her marriage to Henry VII she became the mother of the dynasty, with her children including a King of England (Henry VIII) and Queens of Scotland (Margaret) and France (Mary Rose), and her direct descendants including three Tudor monarchs,...
The Wars of the Roses: England's First Civil War
The War of the Roses is the definitive account of one of the bloodiest episodes in British history - the battle between the houses of York and Lancaster. This gripping history reveals the brutal realities of a nation torn apart by conflict and rivalry, while evocatively placing the fighting within the...
Born to be nobody. Destined to be king. Doomed to be a villain. What matters? Loyalty matters. Loyalty Binds Me.
Artist Hans Holbein receives a summons to the home of Sir Thomas More for the commission of his lifetime, but he will leave with a secret that puts his very life at risk. What he will learn...
Richard III (Revealing History)
| Author | Michael Hicks |
| ISBN | 0752425897 |
Richard III has been written off in history as one of England’s evil kings. His usurpation of the throne from his nephew Edward V and then subsequent generations of pro-Tudor historians ensured his fame as the disfigured murderer portrayed by Shakespeare. In the twentieth century, Richard found...
Eleanor, The Secret Queen: The Woman Who Put Richard III on the Throne
| Author | John Ashdown-Hill |
| ISBN | 0752448668 |
I'm giving this book 5 stars not because it's a page-turner that you can't set down (it isn't), but because of the massive research with a no-stone-left-unturned approach on the part of Ashdown-Hill. This is definitely not a book for those just beginning their study of the Wars of the Roses or the legend...
The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England
| Author | Ann Wroe |
| ISBN | 0812968115 |
In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir to the throne of England. The trouble was, England already had a king.
The most intriguing...
Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen
| Author | Arlene Naylor Okerlund |
| ISBN | 0752433849 |
Elizabeth Wydeville, Queen consort to Edward IV, has traditionally been portrayed as a scheming opportunist. But was she a cunning vixen or a tragic wife and mother? As this extraordinary biography shows, the first queen to bear the name Elizabeth lived a life of tragedy, love, and loss that no other...
Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess
| Author | Christine Weightman |
| ISBN | 1848680996 |
The amazing life of Margaret of York, the woman who tried to overthrow the Tudors. Reared in a dangerous and unpredictable world Margaret of York, sister of Richard III, would become the standard bearer of the House of York and 'The menace of the Tudors'. This alluring and resourceful woman was Henry...
A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England
| Author | Frances Gies |
| ISBN | 0060930551 |
The fascinating story of the fortunes of one medieval family over the course of a century, from bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies
The Pastons were members of the English gentry—a tiny group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched between the ruling nobility and the peasants,...
Great Tales from English History (omnibus)
| Author | Robert Lacey |
| ISBN | 0316067571 |
A feast for history lovers--the whole colorful parade of English history brilliantly captured in a single volume.
From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage, and passion. In GREAT TALES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY, Robert Lacey recounts...
| Author | Anthony Cheetham |
| ISBN | 0520228022 |
From Henry IV, the first Lancastrian king, to Richard III, The Wars of the Roses follows the history of the kings of the houses of Lancaster and York who shaped this tumultuous period of English history. Anthony Cheetham provides insight into the politics, society, and economy of this time, and above...
