Reading and resources list
1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603
Key texts for classroom and individual study
• C Lee, Britain, 1483-1529, Nelson Thornes, 2008
• R Carpenter, The Church in England and the Struggle for Supremacy, 1529-1547, Nelson
Thornes, 2009
• M Tillbrook, The Triumph of Elizabethan Britain 1547-1603, Nelson Thornes, 2009
• I Dawson, The Tudor Century, Nelson Thornes, 1993
Useful books for students
• D Murphy (ed), England 1485-1603, Collins, 1999
• N Fellows, Disorder and Rebellion in Tudor England, Hodder, 2009
• R Lockyer & D O’Sullivan, Tudor Britain 1485-1603, Longman, 1993
• K Randall, Henry VIII and the Government of England, Hodder, 2001
• K Randall, Henry VIII and the Reformation in England, Hodder, 2001
• J Warren, Elizabeth I: Meeting the Challenge, Hodder, 2008
Reference books
• G W Bernard, The Kings Reformation, Yale, 2005
• C Carpenter, The Wars of the Roses, CUP, 1997
• C S L Davies, Peace, Print and Protestantism, Paladin, 1995
S Doran, Princes, Pastors and People, Routledge, 1991
E Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars, Yale, 1992
G R Elton, England Under the Tudors, Routledge, 1991
• A Fletcher & D MacCulloch, Tudor Rebellions, Longman, 2004
• Griffiths (ed), The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England, Macmillan, 1996
• S Gunn, Early Tudor Government, Macmillan,1995
• J Guy, Tudor England, OUP, 1998
• C Haigh, The Reign of Elizabeth, Macmillan, 1984
• C Haigh, English Reformations, Clarendon Press, 1993
• J Loach, The Mid Tudor Polity 1540-1560, Macmillan, 1980
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• D Loades, The Mid-Tudor Crisis, 1545-1565, Palgrave, 1992
• D Loades, Politics and the Nation 1450-1660, Blackwell, 1999
• D M Palliser, The Age of Elizabeth, Longman, 1992
• A J Pollard, The Wars of the Roses, Macmillan, 1988
• J Scarisbrick, The Reformation and the English People, Blackwell, 1984
• A G R Smith, Emergence of A Nation State, Pearson, 1997
• P Thomas, Authority and Disorder in Tudor Times 1485-1603, CUP, 1999
Biographies and first-hand accounts
• S Chrimes, Henry VII, Yale, 1999
• D Cook, Sixteenth Century England Documents and Debates, Macmillan, 1980
• D Cressy & L Ferrell, Religion and Society in Early modern England A Sourcebook, Routledge,
1996
• R Horrox, Richard III, CUP, 1991
• D Loades, The Reign of Mary Tudor, Longman, 1991
• J Loach, Edward VI, Yale, 1999
• D Starkey & L Wooding, Elizabeth, Vintage, 2001
• L Wooding, Henry VIII, Routledge, 2009
Visual sources and websites
• www.johnguy.co.uk
• www.history.ac.uk
• www.activehistory.co.uk
• www.bbc.co.uk/history
• www.tudoerplace.com
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Elizabeth DVDs – D Starkey
• A History of Britain DVD – S Schama
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