Read, The Tudors: ... Sixteenth Century England (1969)

Conyers Read.
The Tudors: Personalities and Practical Politics in Sixteenth Century England.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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First published: New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936.

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Author Information:

• Conyers Read (1881–1959), Wikipedia.
• Conyers Read. England and America. The University of Chicago War Papers, No. 6. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1918.
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• Conyers Read. Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth. Three Volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925.
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• Conyers Read. Mr. Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
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• Conyers Read. Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.
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Wikipedia Articles:

• Early modern Britain, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
• Tudor period, 1485-1603.
• English Renaissance, late Fifteenth Century to early Seventeenth Century.
• Henry VII of England (1457–1509), Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond 1456–1509; King of England 1485–1509.
• House of Tudor.
• Henry VIII of England (1491–1547), King of England 1509–1547.
• English Reformation, Sixteenth Century.
• Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536–1541.
• Edward VI of England (1537–1553), King of England 1547–1553.
• Mary I of England (1516–1558), Mary Tudor, "Bloody Mary"; Queen of England 1553–1558.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603), The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess; Queen of England 1558–1603.

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Previous volumes in The Norton Library History of England series:

• Blair, Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C. - A.D. 871 (1966).
• Brooke, From Alfred to Henry III, 871-1272 (1966).
• Holmes, The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485 (1966).

Read's book The Tudors is not officially a member of The Norton Library History of England series. But the series has a gap for the years 1485-1603. The lists of books in the series variously announce "Forthcoming" volumes to include M.E. James, The Tudor Age, 1485-1603 (this appears in my copy of Holmes) and Margaret Bowker, The Tudor Age, 1485-1603 (this appears in my copy of Read). However, neither of those books were ever published, as far as I can discover. Read's book somewhat fills that gap and was published by Norton during the 1960s during the same period as the official books of the series. Read's book is not so detailed or scholarly as the other books in the series, so perhaps one should turn to other texts for a more rigorous introduction to the Tudor period. Elton's book on the Tudors first appeared in 1955; perhaps its success discouraged the publication of another textbook on the topic for a generation.

• G.R. Elton (1921–1994). England under the Tudors. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.
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• John Guy (b. 1949). Tudor England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988 (paperback 1990).
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• Susan Brigden (b. 1951). New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603. The Penguin History of Britain. London: Penguin Books, 2000 (paperback 2002).
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I suspect that one's time might be better spent with Elton, Guy or Brigden instead of with Read's The Tudors.

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