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Six Wives of henry VIII
The story of Henry VIII and his six wives has passed from history into legend - taught in the cradle as a cautionary tale and remembered in adulthood as an object lesson in the …
Tudors
David Loades provides a masterful overview of this formative period of British history. Exploring the reign of each monarch within the framework of the dynasty, he unpacks the key …
Henry VIII
A major new biography of the most infamous king of England. 'Means to be God, and do as pleases himself' Martin Luther observed. It was a shrewd comment, not merely on the divorce …
Power in Tudor England
England was the most centralised state in medieval Europe. The Tudors built on this situation to reduce still further the provincial power of the nobility, and to eliminate the …
Catherine Howard
Henry's fifth queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers and ended up on the block. However, there was more to her than …
Elizabethan Naval Administration
This is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabeth's navy. This collection mainly concentrates on the early years of Elizabeth's …
Letters from the Mary Rose
'The authors are to be congratulated on a book which merits usage in the national curriculum.' - International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyThe raising of the Tudor warship Mary …
Making of the Elizabethan Navy 1540-1590
An account of the development of the English navy showing how the formidable force which beat the Spanish Armada was created.When Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509 the English …
Seymours of Wolf Hall
Although the Seymours arrived with the Normans, it is with Jane, Henry VIII's third queen, and her brothers - Edward, Duke of Somerset, and Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley - that …
Creation (Problems in Theology)
This reader brings together modern material from a wide range of Christian theologians on the meaning and status of the doctrine of creation; its relation to scientific theories, …