Elton, England under the Tudors, 2e (1974)

G. R. Elton.
England under the Tudors.
London: Methuen and Co., 1955.
Second Edition. London: Methuen and Co., 1974. {I read the 1974 edition.}
Third Edition. Abingdon: Routledge, 1991.
London: The Folio Society, 1999.
Routledge Classics. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com 2018.

Book Series: A History of England, Volume 4, Methuen.
Also: A History of England, Volume 5, The Folio Society.

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Video:

• "Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses G.R. Elton’s England Under the Tudors," Taylor & Francis Books, 31 May 2018.

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Author Information:

• Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994), Wikipedia.
• G. R. Elton. The Tudor Revolution in Government: A Study of Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953.
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• G. R. Elton. Star Chamber Stories. London: Methuen and Co., 1958. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010.
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• G. R. Elton, editor. The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary, Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. (First edition 1960.)
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• G. R. Elton. Reformation Europe: 1517-1559, Second Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 1999. (First edition 1963.)
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• G. R. Elton. The Practice of History, Second Edition. Fontana, 1969. Wiley-Blackwell, 1991, 2002.
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• G. R. Elton. Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
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• G. R. Elton. Reform and Renewal: Thomas Cromwell and the Common Weal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
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• G. R. Elton. Reform and Reformation: England, 1509-1558. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977.
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• Robert William Fogel and G. R. Elton. Which Road to the Past? Two Views of History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
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• G. R. Elton. F.W. Maitland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
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• G. R. Elton. The Parliament of England, 1559-1581. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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• G. R. Elton, editor. The Reformation, 1520-1559, Second Edition. Volume 2 in The New Cambridge Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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• G. R. Elton. Return to Essentials: Some Reflections on the Present State of Historical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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• Geoffrey Elton. The English. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992.
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• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1946–1972: Volume 1. Tudor Politics, Tudor Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1946–1972, Volume 2. Parliament Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume 3. Papers and Reviews 1973–1981. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume 4. Papers and Reviews 1982–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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• Delloyd J. Guth and John W. McKenna, editors. Tudor Rule and Revolution: Essays for G R Elton from His American Friends. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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Wikipedia Articles, In Our Time, etc.:

• Early modern Britain, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
• Tudor period, 1485-1603.
• English Renaissance, late Fifteenth Century to early Seventeenth Century.
• Anglo-Scottish Wars.
• TudorHistory.org, tudorhistory.org.

Business, Economy, etc.:

• Economy of England in the Middle Ages.
• Economic history of the United Kingdom: 16th–17th century.
• Price revolution of the Sixteenth Century.
• Medieval English wool trade.
• The Staple.
• Intercursus Magnus, a commercial treaty signed February 1496 by Henry VII, Philip IV of Burgundy, Venice, Florence, the Netherlands, and the Hanseatic League.
• Merchants of the Staple, English exporters, especially of wool.
• Company of Merchant Adventurers of London.
• History of the English fiscal system.
• Statute of Artificers 1563.
• Poor relief: Tudor era.
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• Hanseatic League, established 1358, diminished slowly after 1450.
• Michael Portillo, "The Hanseatic League," Things We Forgot to Remember, BBC Radio 4, 21 Dec 2009.
• Neil MacGregor, "Holbein and the Hansa," Germany: Memories of a Nation, BBC Radio 4, 16 Oct 2014.
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• Melvyn Bragg, Evelyn Welch, Robert Black, Catherine Fletcher, "The Medici," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, Boxing Day 2013. (Includes a reading list.)
• Florence: Middle Ages and Renaissance.
• Republic of Florence, 1115–1532.
• Italian Renaissance, Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries.
• House of Medici.
• Medici Bank, 1397–1494.
• Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464).
• Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492), Lorenzo the Magnificent; grandson of Cosimo de' Medici.
• Pazzi conspiracy of 1478.
• Catherine de' Medici (1547–1589), Queen consort of France 1547–1559.
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• Thomas Gresham (c.1519–1579), merchant, financier.
• Royal Exchange, London; Gresham's Exchange opened 1568; renamed the Royal Exchange in 1571.
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• Tudor Festival: Sir Thomas Gresham and His World Lecture Series, Gresham College, 2019.
  • Ian Archer, "Sir Thomas Gresham, London and Europe," Gresham College, 09 January 2019.
  • Steve Jones, "Evolution Since Sir Thomas Gresham," Gresham College, 29 January 2019.
  • Nandini Das, "Gresham's World: Global Traffic, Trade and the Metamorphosis of England," Gresham College, 06 February 2019.
  • Joseph Silk, "How Astronomy Changed our View of the Cosmos: From Gresham to the 21st Century," Gresham College, 6 March 2019.
  • Margaret Willes, "Gresham's Bequest to Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn," Gresham College, 11 March 2019.
    • Margaret Willes. The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.
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  • Carolyn Roberts, "The Natural Environment of Tudor London," Gresham College, 10 April 2019.
  • Chris Budd, "500 Years of Mathematics," Gresham College, 30 April 2019.
  • Stephen Alford, "Gresham's Exchange," Gresham College, 08 May 2019.
  • John Guy, "Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-2019," Gresham College, 13 June 2019.
    • John Guy. Gresham's Law: The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker. London: Profile Books, 2019.
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• Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), Italian Jesuit priest who translated knowledge between China and Europe.
• Ming dynasty, 1368–1644.
• Melvyn Bragg, Mary Laven, Craig Clunas, Anne Gerritsen, "Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 Apr 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
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• East India Company, founded 1600.
• Melvyn Bragg, Huw Bowen, Linda Colley, Maria Misra, "The East India Company," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 26 Jun 2003.

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Henry VII:

• Henry VII of England (1457–1509), Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond 1457–1509; King of England 1485–1509.
• House of Tudor.
• Elizabeth of York (1466–1503), daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville; wife of Henry VII, and thus the first Tudor queen; mother of Henry VIII.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Guy, Christopher Haigh, Christine Carpenter, "The Tudor State," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 26 Oct 2000.
• Melvyn Bragg, Norman Davies, Andrew Marr, "The Nation State," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 14 Oct 1999.
• Cornish rebellion of 1497.

Henry VIII:

• Henry VIII of England (1491–1547), King of England 1509–1547.
• Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473–1530), Lord Chancellor 1515–1529.
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• Treaty of London (1518).
• Field of the Cloth of Gold, summit and tournament field, June 1520.
• Siege of Vienna, 1529.
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558), Holy Roman Emperor 1519–1556; King of Castile and Aragon 1516–1556; head of the House of Habsburg.
• Francis I of France (1494–1547), King of France 1515–1547.
• Melvyn Bragg, Steven Gunn, John Guy, Penny Roberts, "The Field of the Cloth of Gold," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 6 Oct 2005.
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• Thomas More (1478–1535), Lord Chancellor 1529–1532.
• Thomas Cromwell (c.1485–1540), leading councillor of Henry VIII during the 1530s.
• Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473–1554), Lord High Treasurer 1522–1546.
• Acts of Supremacy, 1534, 1558.
• Pilgrimage of Grace, October 1536 – October 1537, widespread rising in the north.
• Privy Council of England.
• Star Chamber.

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Protestant Reformation:

• Erasmus (1466–1536), lived in England 14##–14##/150# and 1510–1515.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Eamon Duffy, Jill Kraye, "Erasmus," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 09 Feb 2012.
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• Protestant Reformation, Sixteenth Century.
• Martin Luther (1483–1546). Ninety-five Theses, 1517.
• Diet of Worms, 1521.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, David Bagchi, Charlotte Methuen, "The Diet of Worms," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 Oct 2006.
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• English Reformation, Sixteenth Century.
• English Reformation Parliament, 1529–1536.
• Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1530s–1540s.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Diane Purkiss, George Bernard, "The Dissolution of the Monasteries," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 27 Mar 2008.
• Michael Sherbrook's account of the spoliation of Roche, The Cistercians of Yorkshire.
• Roche Abbey, South Yorkshire.
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• William Tyndale (c.1494–1536).
• Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), Archbishop of Canterbury 1533–1555.
• Book of Common Prayer, 1549, 1552.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Alexandra Walsham, Martin Palmer, "The Book of Common Prayer," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 17 Oct 2013.
• The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662. Edited by Brian Cummings. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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• Richard Cox (c.1500–1581).
• John Knox (c.1513–1572).
• William Whittingham (c.1524–1579).
• Troubles at Frankfurt, mid-1550s, among British Marian exiles.
• Geneva Bible, 1557–1560.
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• John Foxe (1516/1517–1587). Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church), 1563.
• List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Justin Champion, Elizabeth Evenden, "Foxe's Book of Martyrs," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Nov 2010.
• John Foxe. Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives. Edited by John N. King. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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• Siege of Münster, February 1534 – June 1535.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Charlotte Methuen, Lucy Wooding, "The Siege of Munster," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 05 Nov 2009.
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• John Calvin (1509–1564).
• Calvinism.
• History of Geneva: Reformation.
• Melvyn Bragg, Justin Champion, Susan Hardman Moore, Diarmaid MacCulloch, "Calvinism," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 Feb 2010.
• Puritans.
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• Council of Trent, 1545–1563.
• Counter-Reformation.
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• French Wars of Religion, 1562–1598.
• Huguenots.
• Catholic League.
• House of Guise.
• St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, 23–24 August 1572.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Mark Greengrass, Penny Roberts, "St Bartholomew's Day Massacre," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 27 Nov 2003.
• Henry II of France (1519–1559), King of France 1547–1559.
• Francis II of France (1544–1560), King of France 1559–1560.
• Charles IX of France (1550–1574), King of France 1560–1574.
• Catherine de' Medici (1547–1589), Queen consort of France 1547–1559; Regent 1560–1563.
• Henry III of France (1551–1589), King of France 1574–1589.
• Henry IV of France (1553–1610), Henry of Navarre; King of Navarre 1572–1610; King of France 1589–1610.
• Margaret of Valois (1553–1615), daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici; married Henry of Navarre on 18 August 1572.
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• Witchcraft.
• European witchcraft.
• Witchcraft in Britain.
• Witchcraft Acts, 1542; 1563; Scottish 1563; 1604; 1649; 1735.
• Witch trials in the early modern period.
• Melvyn Bragg, Alison Rowlands, Lyndal Roper, Malcolm Gaskill, "Witchcraft," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 21 Oct 2004.
• Heinrich Kramer (c.1430–1505). Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches), 1487.
• Little Ice Age, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries; also dated as about 1300 to about 1850.
• James VI of Scotland (1566–1625). Daemonologie, 1597.
• Matthew Hopkins (c.1620–1647), "an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War".
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• Pelagius (c.360–418).
• Pelagianism: Reformation.
• Melvyn Bragg, Martin Palmer, Caroline Humfress, John Milbank, "The Pelagian Controversy," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 21 Apr 2011.
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• Spanish Inquisition, established 01 November 1478.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Edwards, Alexander Murray, Michael Alpert, "The Spanish Inquisition," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 22 Jun 2006.
• Albigensian Crusade or the Cathar Crusade, 1209–1229.
• Catharism.
• Historical revision of the Inquisition.
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• Melvyn Bragg, Justin Champion, David Wootton, Sarah Barber, "Toleration," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 20 May 2004.

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Art:

• Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497–1543).
• List of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger.
• Melvyn Bragg, Susan Foister, John Guy, Maria Hayward, "Holbein at the Tudor Court," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Oct 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
• Danse Macabre.
• Hans Holbein. The Dance of Death. Commentary by Ulinka Rublack. London: Penguin Classics, 2016.
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• Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525/1530–1569). The Fight Between Carnival And Lent, 1559.
• Melvyn Bragg, Louise Milne, Jeanne Nuechterlein, Miri Rubin, "Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Jan 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
• Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450–1516).
• Hieronymus Cock (1518–1570).
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• Book of Judith.
• Judith beheading Holofernes.
• Melvyn Bragg, Susan Foister, John Gash, Ela Nutu Hall, "Judith beheading Holofernes," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 14 Feb 2019. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Simon Thurley, "Painting, Patronage and Politics under the Tudors," Gresham College, 19 September 2018.
• Simon Thurley, "Architecture, Images and Image-Making under the Stuarts," Gresham College, 30 January 2019.
  (Despite the title the lecture includes some mention of the Tudor period.)
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• Artists of the Tudor court.
• Nicholas Hilliard (c.1547–1619).
• Isaac Oliver (c.1565–1617).
• Portraiture of Elizabeth I of England.

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Edward VI and Mary I:

• Edward VI of England (1537–1553), King of England 1547–1553.
• Kett's Rebellion, July – August, 1549.
• Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c.1500–1552), Lord Protector of England 1547–1549.
• John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504–1553), Lord Protector of England 1550–1553.
• Lady Jane Grey (c.1537–1554), Lady Jane Dudley, wife of John Dudley's son.
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• Mary I of England (1516–1558), Mary Tudor, "Bloody Mary"; Queen of England 1553–1558.
• Stephen Gardiner (1483–1555), Lord Chancellor 1553–1555.
• English Reformation: Marian Restoration.
• Philip II: Relations with England and Ireland, King of England 1554–1558 as husband of Queen Mary.
• Wyatt's rebellion, 1554.
  Thomas Wyatt the Younger.
• List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation.

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Elizabeth I:

• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603), Elizabeth Tudor; Queen of England 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Act of Uniformity 1558.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement, 1559.
• William Cecil (1520–1598), Lord Burghley; Secretary of State 1550–1553 and 1558–1572; Lord High Treasurer 1572–1598.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Susan Doran, John Guy, "William Cecil," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 07 Mar 2019. (Includes a reading list.)
• Francis Walsingham (c.1532–1590).
• Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–1588), a favourite of Elizabeth I.
• Christopher Hatton (1540–1591), a favourite of Elizabeth I.
• John Whitgift (c.1530–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury 1583–1604.
• Richard Hooker (1554–1600). Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 1594; 1597.
• William Harrison (1534–1593). Description of England, 1577; 1587.
  • William Harrison. The Description of England. Edited by George Edelen. Washington, D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library; and New York: Dover Publications, 1994.
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• Philip II of Spain (1527–1598), Lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands 1555–1598; King of Spain 1556–1598; King of Portugal 1581–1598.
• Dutch Revolt against Roman Catholic Habsburg rule, 1568–1648.
• Eighty Years' War or Dutch War of Independence 1568–1648.
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• Battle of Lepanto, 07 October 1571.
• Holy League (1571).
• Territorial evolution of the Ottoman Empire.
• Ottoman Empire: Expansion and peak (1453–1566).
• Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire, 1453–1566.
• Transformation of the Ottoman Empire, 1566–1703.
• Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573).
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Kate Fleet, Noel Malcolm, "The Battle of Lepanto," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 Nov 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), Mary Stuart; Queen of Scotland 1542–1567.
• Rising of the North, Northern Rebellion, 1569.
• Ridolfi plot, 1571.
• Melvyn Bragg, David Forsyth, Anna Groundwater, John Guy, "Mary, Queen of Scots," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 19 Jan 2017. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Peter Wentworth (1529–1596), a prominent Puritan leader in Parliament.
• History of the Puritans under Queen Elizabeth I.
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• Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).
• Philip II: Relations with England and Ireland.
• Spanish Armada, 1588.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diane Purkiss, Mia Rodriguez-Salgado, Nicholas Rodger, "The Spanish Armada," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 07 Oct 2010.
• For more on the Spanish Armada see my post for Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1959; 2002).
• English Armada, 1589.
• Michael Portillo, "The English Armada," Things We Forgot to Remember, BBC Radio 4, 04 Dec 2011.
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• John Cabot (c.1450–c.1500).
• Sebastian Cabot (c.1474–1557).
• John Hawkins (1532–1595).
• Martin Frobisher (c.1535–1594).
• Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536–1624), Lord High Admiral.
• Humphrey Gilbert (c.1539–1583).
• Francis Drake (c.1540–1596).
• Richard Grenville (1542–1591).
• Walter Raleigh (c.1552/1554–1618).
• Richard Hakluyt (1553–1616).
  • Richard Hakluyt. Voyages and Discoveries. (The Principall Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation.) Edited by Jack Beeching. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1972.
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• Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565–1601).
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• Tudor conquest of Ireland.
• Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612), son of William Cecil; high official during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
• Edward Coke (1552–1634), Solicitor General 1592–1594; Speaker of the House of Commons 1593–1594; Attorney General 1594–1606; and higher offices during the reign of James I.
  • Edward Coke, Institutes of the Lawes of England, 1628–1644.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Guy, Clare Jackson, Helen Hackett, "The Death of Elizabeth I," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Oct 2009.

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James I of England:

• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• James VI and I (1566–1625), King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.

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Renaissance, Literature, Philosophy, etc.:

• Renaissance, Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries.
• Italian Renaissance, Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries.
• Northern Renaissance, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
• Melvyn Bragg, Francis Ames-Lewis, Peter Burke, Evelyn Welch, "The Renaissance," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 08 Jun 2000.
• Jules Michelet (1798–1874), French historian.
• Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897). The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, 1860.
• Melvyn Bragg, Tom Healy, Charles Hope, Evelyn Welch, "Paganism in the Renaissance," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 Jun 2005.
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• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527).
• Melvyn Bragg, Quentin Skinner, Evelyn Welch, Lisa Jardine, "Machiavelli and the Italian City States," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 09 Dec 2004.
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• French Renaissance, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
• French Renaissance literature.
• Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592).
• Melvyn Bragg, David Wootton, Terence Cave, Felicity Green, "Montaigne," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 Apr 2013. (Includes a reading list.)
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• English Renaissance, Sixteenth Century.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.
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• Tottel's Miscellany, 1557.
• Tottel's Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others. Edited by Amanda Holton and Tom MacFaul. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 2011.
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• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516/1517–1547).
• Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542).
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• Thomas Elyot (c.1490–1546).
• Roger Ascham (c.1515–1568).
• John Dee (1527–1608/1609).
• Thomas Norton (1532–1584).
• Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608).
• Edmund Spenser (1552/1553–1599).
• John Florio (1553–1625).
• Philip Sidney (1554–1586).
• Thomas Kyd (1558–1594).
• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593).
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Thomas Nashe (1567–c.1601).
• Thomas Campion (1567–1620).
• John Donne (1572–1631).
• Ben Jonson (1572–1637).
• Thomas Middleton (1580–1627).
• John Webster (c.1580–c.1634).
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• Revenge play.
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Julie Sanders, Janet Clare, "Elizabethan Revenge," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Jun 2009.
• Thomas Kyd (1558–1594). The Spanish Tragedy, 1582–1592.
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
  • Titus Andronicus, 1588–1593.
  • Hamlet, 1599–1602.
• Thomas Middleton (1580–1627). The Revenger's Tragedy, 1606.
• Four Revenge Tragedies. Edited by Katharine Eisaman Maus. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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• Three Revenge Tragedies. Edited by Gamini Salgado. London: Penguin Classics, 2004.
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• Five Revenge Tragedies. Edited by Emma Smith. London: Penguin Classics, 2012.
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• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593).
• Melvyn Bragg, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Jonathan Bate, Emma Smith, "Marlowe," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 07 Jul 2005.
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• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Melvyn Bragg, Katherine Duncan-Jones, John Sutherland, Grace Ioppolo, "Shakespeare's Life," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Mar 2001.
• Melvyn Bragg, Frank Kermode, Michael Bogdanov, Germaine Greer, "Shakespeare's Work," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 May 2000.
• Melvyn Bragg, Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan, Katherine Lewis, "Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 Oct 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Catherine Steel, Patrick Gray, "Is Shakespeare History? The Romans," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Oct 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Francis Bacon (1561–1626).
• Melvyn Bragg, Patricia Fara, Stephen Pumfrey, Rhodri Lewis, "Baconian Science," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 02 Apr 2009.

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Some Other BBC Radio 4 Series on Tudor / Elizabethan Topics:

• Discovery of England.
• This Sceptred Isle: Empire.
• Elizabethan Subjects.

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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.

Book Information: Google Books; Amazon.com.

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.
  [Google Books; Archive.org.]
• Conyers Read. Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth. Three Volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925.
  [Google Books.]
• Conyers Read. Mr. Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Conyers Read. Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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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.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John Guy (b. 1949). Tudor England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988 (paperback 1990).
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• 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).
  [Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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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Holmes, The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485 (1966)

George Holmes.
The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1966.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Norton Library History of England.

Originally published: Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1962.

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Author Information:

• George Holmes (1927–2009), Wikipedia.
• George Holmes. Europe: Hierarchy and Revolt, 1320-1450, Second Edition. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• George Holmes. Florence, Rome, and the Origins of the Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• George Holmes, editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, 1990, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• George Holmes, editor. The Oxford History of Medieval Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• George Holmes, editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, 2001.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles, In Our Time, Books, etc.:

• England in the Middle Ages, Fifth Century to Fifteenth Century.
• England in the Late Middle Ages, from the Thirteenth Century, the end of the Angevins, and the accession of Henry III until the accession to the throne of the Tudor dynasty in 1485.
• Historians of England in the Middle Ages.
• Economy of England in the Middle Ages.
• Feudalism.
• Feudalism in England.
• Bastard feudalism, a Nineteenth Century historian's description of English feudalism as it decayed in the Late Middle Ages.
• Medieval English wool trade.
• The Staple.
• Merchants of the Staple, English exporters, especially of wool.
• Company of Merchant Adventurers of London.
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• Crisis of the Late Middle Ages (famine, plague, social unrest).
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• Oxford Franciscan school.
• Robert Grosseteste (c.1175–1253), Bishop of Lincoln 1235–1253.
• European science in the Middle Ages.
• Roger Bacon (c.1219/20–c.1292).
• Melvyn Bragg, Jack Cunningham, Amanda Power, Elly Truitt, "Roger Bacon," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 20 Apr 2017.
• Duns Scotus (c.1266–1308).
• William of Ockham (c.1287–1347).
  • William of Ockham. A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government. Translated by John Kilcullen. Edited by Arthur Stephen McGrade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • William of Ockham. 'A Letter to the Friars Minor' and Other Writings. Translated by John Kilcullen. Edited by Arthur Stephen McGrade and John Kilcullen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Sentences of Peter Lombard, mid Twelfth Century.
• Melvyn Bragg, Anthony Kenny, Marilyn Adams, Richard Cross, "Ockham's Razor," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 31 May 2007.
• Medieval university.
• Melvyn Bragg, Miri Rubin, Ian Wei, Peter Denley, "The Medieval University," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 17 Mar 2011.

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Henry III:

• Henry III of England (1207–1272), King of England 1216–1272.
• Parliament in the reign of Henry III.
• Provisions of Oxford, 1258.
• Second Barons' War, 1264–1267.
• Ninth Crusade, 1271–1272.

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Edward I:

• Edward I of England (1239–1307), The Lord Edward, Edward Longshanks, Hammer of the Scots; King of England 1272–1307.
• The emergence of parliament as an institution.
• Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c.1223–1282), Price of Wales 1246–1282.
• Conquest of Wales by Edward I of England, 1277–1283.
• Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd.
• First War of Scottish Independence, 1296-1328.

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Edward II:

• Edward II of England (1284–1327), King of England 1307–1327.
• Ordinances of 1311, barons restricted the power of Edward II; repealed May 1322.
• Robert the Bruce (1274–1329), King of Scots 1306–1329.
• Battle of Bannockburn, June 1314.
• Melvyn Bragg, Matthew Strickland, Fiona Watson, Michael Brown, "The Battle of Bannockburn," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 3 Feb 2011.
• Great Famine of 1315–1317.
• Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.
• Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster (c.1278–1322), a leader of the baronial opposition to Edward II.
• Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287–1330), a leader of the baronial opposition to Edward II.
• Isabella of France (1295–1358), Queen of England as the wife of Edward II; regent of England 1327–1330.
• Despenser War, 1321–1322, baronial revolt against Edward II.
• Invasion of England (1326) led by Roger Mortimer and Isabella of France.
• Parliament of 1327, deposed Edward II.
• Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton, 1328.

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Edward III:

• Edward III of England (1312–1377), King of England 1327–1377.
• Hundred Years' War, 1337–1453.
  Major phases:
  • the Edwardian War, 1337–1360.
  • the Caroline War, 1369–1389.
  • the Lancastrian War, 1415–1453.
• William de la Pole (d. 1366), wool merchant, financier, royal moneylender, Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1339–13##.
• Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346. [Hundred Years' War]
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• Black Death, peak years 1347–1351.
• Black Death in England, reached England in June 1348; recurred in England 1361−1362 ("Second Pestilence" or "Pestilence of the Children"), 1369, 1375, 1471, 1479–1480, 1603-1611, 1665–1666. (Second plague pandemic.)
• Consequences of the Black Death.
• Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.
• Statute of Labourers 1351.
• Deserted medieval village.
• Melvyn Bragg, Miri Rubin, Samuel Cohn, Paul Binski, "The Black Death," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 22 May 2008.
• Richard Evans, "The Great Plagues: The Black Death," Gresham College, 25 September 2012.
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• Battle of Poitiers, 19 September 1356. [Hundred Years' War]
• Treaty of Brétigny, drafted at Brétigny on 8 May 1360, ratified on 24 October 1360 as the Treaty of Calais. [Hundred Years' War]
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• Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (c.1310–1361).
• Edward the Black Prince (1330–1376), Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince; eldest son of King Edward III.
• John of Gaunt (1340–1399), Duke of Lancaster; son of King Edward III; patron of Geoffrey Chaucer.
• Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355–1397), son of King Edward III.
• Blanche of Lancaster (1342–1368), daughter of Henry of Grosmont; first wife of John of Gaunt; mother of Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV of England).
• Hundred Years' War (1369–89), the Caroline War.

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Richard II:

• Richard II of England (1367–1400), King of England 1377–1399; deposed in 1399.
• Western Schism, 1378–1417.
• Peasants' Revolt, 1381, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising.
  • John Ball (c.1338–1381).
  • Wat Tyler (d. 1381).
• Melvyn Bragg, Miri Rubin, Caroline Barron, Alastair Dunn, "The Peasants' Revolt," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 November 2006.
• Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.
• Wonderful Parliament, November 1386; imposed restrictions on the rule of Richard II.
• Lords Appellant.
• Merciless Parliament, February to June 1388; members of Richard II's court convicted of treason; most were executed.
• Truce of Leulinghem, effective 18 July 1389. [Hundred Years' War]
• Wilton Diptych, c.1395–1399.
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• The Tyranny of Richard II, 1397–1399:
  • Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (1355–1397), murdered on 8/9 September 1397 presumably on behalf of Richard II.
  • Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel (1346–1397), arrested on 12 July 1397, beheaded on 21 September 1397.
  • Thomas Arundel (1353–1414), Bishop of Ely 1373-1388; Archbishop of York 1388-1396; Lord Chancellor 1386-1389 and 1391-1396; Archbishop of Canterbury 1396-1414; exiled by Richard II in 1397.
  • Bolingbroke and Mowbray exiled by Richard II, October 1398.
  • Parliament of Shrewsbury, 1398; declared all the acts of the Merciless Parliament to be null and void; made Richard II an absolute ruler.
• Downfall of Richard II, August 1399.

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Fourteenth Century Literature, Religion:

• Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343–1400), bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, poet.
  • The Book of the Duchess, composed 1368 to early-1370s.
  • Troilus and Criseyde, composed mid-1380s.
  • The Canterbury Tales, composed late-1380s to 1400.
• Melvyn Bragg, Carolyne Larrington, Helen Cooper, Ardis Butterfield, "Chaucer," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 9 Feb 2006.
• William Langland (c.1332–c.1386). Piers Plowman, c.1370–1390.
  Piers Plowman tradition.
• Gawain Poet (Fourteenth Century).
• Melvyn Bragg, Laura Ashe, Ad Putter, Simon Armitage, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 13 Dec 2018.
• John Wycliffe (1320s–1384).
  Wycliffe's Bible, 1382–1395.
• Lollardy, the Lollard movement, mid-Fourteenth Century.
• Melvyn Bragg, Anthony Kenny, Anne Hudson, Rob Lutton, "Wyclif and the Lollards," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 Jun 2011.

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Henry IV:

• Henry IV of England (1367–1413), Henry Bolingbroke, King of England 1399–1413.
• House of Lancaster (Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI).
• Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408).
• Owain Glyndŵr (c.1359–c.1415), Prince of Wales 1404–c.1415; led Welch revolt 1400–1415.
• Glyndŵr Rising, 1400–1415.
• Melvyn Bragg, Huw Pryce, Helen Fulton, Chris Given-Wilson, "Owain Glyndwr," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 31 Jan 2019.
• Henry Percy (Hotspur) (1364–1403).
• Battle of Shrewsbury, 21 July 1403.

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Henry V:

• Henry V of England (1386–1422), Henry of Monmouth, King of England 1413–1422.
• Oldcastle Revolt, 1414.
  John Oldcastle (c.1360/78–1417).
• John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389–1435), brother of Henry V.
• Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390–1447), brother of Henry V.
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• Hundred Years' War (1415–53), the Lancastrian War.
• Battle of Agincourt, 25 October 1415. [Hundred Years' War]
• Melvyn Bragg, Anne Curry, Michael Jones, John Watts, "Agincourt," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 Sep 2004.
• Helen Castor, "Agincourt or Azincourt?: Victory, Defeat and the War of 1415," Gresham College, 22 October 2015.
• Treaty of Troyes, 21 May 1420. [Hundred Years' War]

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Henry VI:

• Henry VI of England (1421–1471), King of England 1422–1461 and 1470–1471.
• Regency government, 1422–1437; this article lists the members of the Regency Council.
• Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390–1447), uncle of Henry VI, Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew.
• Henry Beaufort (c.1375–1447).
• Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471), Warwick the Kingmaker, "the wealthiest and most powerful English peer of his age."
• Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (c.1406–1455).
• Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411–1460), Richard Plantagenet, father of Edward IV and Richard III.
• William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396–1450), a favourite of Henry VI.
• Wars of the Roses, 1455–1487.
• House of York.
• House of Lancaster.
• Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482), Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI 1445–1461 and 1470–1471.
• Melvyn Bragg, Katherine Lewis, James Ross, Joanna Laynesmith, "Margaret of Anjou," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 24 May 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
• Battle of Towton, 29 March 1461.
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• Siege of Orléans, October 1428 – May 1429. [Hundred Years' War]
• Yolande of Aragon (1384–1442), mother-in-law of Charles VII.
• Charles VII of France (1403–1461), Dauphin of France 1418–1422; King of France 1422–1461.
• Joan of Arc (c.1412–1431), "The Maid of Orléans".
• Melvyn Bragg, Anne Curry, Malcolm Vale, Matthew Bennett, "The Siege of Orléans," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 24 May 2007.
• Michael Portillo, "Joan of Arc," Things We Forgot to Remember, BBC Radio 4, 02 Oct 2012.
• Fall of Constantinople, 6 April – 29 May 1453.
• Battle of Castillon, 17 July 1453. [Hundred Years' War]

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Edward IV:

• Edward IV of England (1442–1483), King of England 1461–1470 and 1471–1483; the first Yorkist King of England.
• House of York.
• Elizabeth Woodville (c.1437–1492), Queen consort of England, as the spouse of King Edward IV from 1464 until his death in 1483; mother of the "Princes in the Tower" and Elizabeth of York, who married Henry VII.
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• Readeption of Henry VI, "the restoration of Henry VI of England to the throne of England in 1470."
• Battle of Barnet, 14 April 1471.
  Deaths of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and John Neville, Marquess of Montagu.
• Battle of Tewkesbury, 4 May 1471.
• Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (1453–1471), only son of King Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou; died at the Battle of Tewkesbury.
• Restoration of Edward IV, May 1471.

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Edward V:

• Edward V of England (1470–c.1483), son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.
• Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473–c.1483), son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.
• Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester (1452–1485), Duke of Gloucester 1461–1485; Lord Protector of the realm for Edward V in 1483.
• Princes in the Tower, imprisoned May and June 1483.

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Richard III:

• Richard III of England (1452–1485), King of England 1483–1485.
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• Battle of Bosworth Field, 22 August 1485.
• Wars of the Roses, 1455–1487.
• Melvyn Bragg, Helen Castor, Colin Richmond, Steven Gunn, "The Wars of the Roses," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 May 2000.
• Paston Letters, 1422–1509.
  • The Paston Letters. Edited by Norman Davis. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Melvyn Bragg, Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan, Katherine Lewis, "Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 Oct 2018.

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Henry VII:

• Henry VII of England (1457–1509), Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond 1457–1509; King of England 1485–1509.
• House of Tudor.
• Elizabeth of York (1466–1503), daughter of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville; wife of Henry VII, and thus the first Tudor queen; mother of Henry VIII.

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Literature, Religion, Philosophy, etc.:

• Gustav Milne, "The Growth of London as a Port from Roman to Medieval Times," Gresham College, 17 October 2016.
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• William Caxton (c.1422–c.1491), produced the first book printed in England in 1476.
• Melvyn Bragg, Richard Gameson, Julia Boffey, David Rundle, "Caxton and the Printing Press," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Oct 2012. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Laura Ashe, editor. Early Fiction in England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer. London: Penguin Classics, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• John Mandeville (Fourteenth Century).
  • John Mandeville. The Book of Marvels and Travels. Translated by Anthony Bale. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Julian of Norwich (late 1342 – after 1416). Revelations of Divine Love, early Fifteenth Century.
  • Julian of Norwich. Revelations of Divine Love. Translated by Barry Windeatt. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438). The Book of Margery Kempe, Fifteenth Century.
  • Margery Kempe. The Book of Margery Kempe. Translated by Anthony Bale. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Melvyn Bragg, Miri Rubin, Katherine Lewis, Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe and English Mysticism," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 2 Jun 2016. (Includes a reading list.)
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• John Fortescue (c.1394–1479). De Laudibus Legum Angliae (Commendation of the Laws of England), c.1543.
  • Sir John Fortescue. On the Laws and Governance of England. Edited by Shelly Lockwood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Christine de Pizan (1364–c.1430). The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405.
  • Christine de Pizan. The Book of the City of Ladies. Translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1999.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Christine de Pizan. The Treasure of the City of Ladies. Translated by Sarah Lawson. London: Penguin Classics, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Melvyn Bragg, Helen Swift, Miranda Griffin, Marilynn Desmond, "Christine de Pizan," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 8 Jun 2017. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Mabinogion, compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions.
  • The Mabinogion. Translated by Sioned Davies. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Wales in the Middle Ages.
• Melvyn Bragg, Sioned Davies, Helen Fulton, Juliette Wood, "The Mabinogion," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 10 May 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Tristan and Iseult.
• Melvyn Bragg, Laura Ashe, Juliette Wood, Mark Chinca, "Tristan and Iseult," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 31 Dec 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Matter of Britain.
• Thomas Malory (c.1415–1471). Le Morte d'Arthur, 1485.
  • Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur. Edited by Helen Cooper. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Melvyn Bragg, Helen Cooper, Helen Fulton, Laura Ashe, "Le Morte d'Arthur," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 10 Jan 2013. (Includes a reading list.)
• Fisher King.
• Melvyn Bragg, Carolyne Larrington, Stephen Knight, Juliette Wood, "The Fisher King," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 17 Jan 2008.
• Holy Grail.
• Melvyn Bragg, Carolyne Larrington, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Juliette Wood, "The Holy Grail," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 May 2003.
• Merlin.
• Melvyn Bragg, Juliette Wood, Stephen Knight, Peter Forshaw, "Merlin," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 30 Jun 2005.
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• Marco Polo (1254–1324). The Travels of Marco Polo, c.1300.
• Melvyn Bragg, Frances Wood, Joan Pau Rubies, Debra Higgs Strickland, "Marco Polo," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 24 May 2012.
• Genghis Khan (c.1162–1227).
• Kublai Khan (1215–1294).
• Mongol Empire, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.
• Golden Horde, 1240s–1502.
• Marco Polo. The Travels of Marco Polo. Translated by Ronald Latham. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1958.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Marco Polo. The Travels of Marco Polo. Translated by Nigel Cliff. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406). Muqaddimah, 1377.
• Melvyn Bragg, Robert Hoyland, Robert Irwin, Hugh Kennedy, "Ibn Khaldun," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 04 Feb 2010.
• Ibn Khaldun. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, Abridged Edition. Translated by Franz Rosenthal. Edited by N. J. Dawood. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1967.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Al-Andalus, Muslim Spain.
• Black Death, mid Fourteenth Century.
• Ibn al-Khatib (1313–1374).
• Mamluk.
  Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo), 1250–1517.
• Timur (1336–1405), known as Tamerlane.
  Timurid Empire, 1370–1507.
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• Dante Alighieri (c.1265–1321).
• Divine Comedy, begun c.1308, completed in 1320.
• Inferno.
• Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Kean, John Took, Claire Hones, "Dante's Inferno," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 23 Oct 2008.
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• Polydore Vergil (c.1470–1555). Anglica Historia, drafted by 1513; printed 1534.

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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).

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