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Henry VIII,the Reign 

​The Bibliography

​This is a selection from many books, listed in the order in which they become relevant to Henry VIII, the Reign.
At the end there is a short list of books, background, relating to the foundations of the Reformation which began to build in earnest during the reign of Henry VIII.
All the books below, at the time of publication, can be found online with a simple title and author search.
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England1 Mar 2012
by Thomas Penn
The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
by Michael K. Jones and Malcolm G. Underwood
Henry VII (The English Monarchs Series)
by S. B. Chrimes
Henry VIII (The English Monarchs Series)
by J.J. Scarisbrick
Henry VIII
by A. F. Pollard
Henry VIII: An Essay in Revision
by G R Elton
The Reign of Henry the Eighth
by James Anthony Froude
Francis I
by R. J. Knecht
The Emperor Charles V: The Growth and Destiny of a Man and of a World-Empire
by Karl Brandi (trans BY C. V. Wedgwood).
The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire
by Andrew Wheatcroft
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
by Dr David Starkey
Thomas Wolsey, late Cardinal, his Life and Death written by George Cavendish his gentleman-usher.
by George Cavendish
The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey
by Peter J Gwyn
WOLSEY
by A. F. Pollard
Statesman and the Fanatic: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas More
by Jasper Ridley
The Great Regent: Louise of Savoy,1476-1531
by Dorothy Moulton Mayer
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen
by Giles Tremlett
The Italian Wars 1494-1559: War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe
by Michael Edward Mallett and Christine Shaw
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power
by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Pavia 1525: The Climax of the Italian Wars: Charles V Crushes the French (Campaign)
by Angus Konstam (Author),‎ Graham Turner (Illustrator)
Thomas Cranmer: A Life
by Diarmaid Macculloch
The Reformation Parliament 1529-1536
by Stanford E. Lehmberg
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy
by Eric Ives
Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549): Mother of the Renaissance
by Patricia Franci Cholakian and‎ Rouben C Cholakian
The Popes: A History
by Viscount John Julius Norwich
Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes
by Eamon Duffy
Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII and his Italian Ambassador
by Catherine Fletcher
The Sack of Rome 1527
by Judith Hook
Ordeal by Ambition: An English Family [The Seymours] in the Shadow of the Tudors
by William Seymour
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold
by John Guy
King Johan
by John Bale
William Tyndale: A Biography
by David Daniell
Obedience in Church and State: Three Political Tracts
by Stephen Gardiner
Stephen Gardiner and the Tudor Reaction
by J A MULLER
Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's Lost Son
by Beverley A. Murphy
Bare Ruined Choirs: The Dissolution Of The English Monasteries
by David Knowles
The Later Parliaments of Henry VIII: 1536-1547
by Stanford E Lehmberg
Rebels & Rulers 1500 1600 v1: Society, States, and Early Modern Revolution: Agrarian and Urban Rebellions
by Zagorin
The Pilgrimage of Grace: The Rebellion that Shook King Henry VIII's Throne
by Geoffrey Moorhouse
The Ebbs and Flows of Fortune: The Life of Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk
by David M. Head
The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s
by R. W. Hoyle
Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation (Royal Historical Society Studies in History)
by Rory McEntegart
Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest
by Susan Brigden
Queen Katherine Parr
by Anthony Martienssen
The Rough Wooings: Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1551
by Marcus Merriman
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
by Jessie Childs
The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracy, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant
by Robert Hutchinson
The Government Policy of Protector Somerset
by M. L. Bush
Edward VI: The Lost King of England
by Chris Skidmore
 
 
 
Background
The Penguin History of Britain: The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284
by Prof David Carpenter
Henry I (The English Monarchs Series)
by C Warren Hollister
Stephen and Matilda: The Civil War Of 1139-53
by Jim Bradbury
King Stephen: Yale English Monarchs (Yale English Monarchs Series)
by Edmund King
King Stephen
by Ralph Henry Carless Davis
Henry II (Yale English Monarchs)
by W L Warren  (Author)
King John (The English Monarchs Series)
by W. L. Warren (Author
John Wycliffe And The Beginnings Of English Nonconformity
by K B Mcfarlane
Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights
by K.B. McFarlane and J.R.L. Highfield
The Later Lollards, 1414-1520
by John A. F Thomson
Henry VIII, the Reign.
Henry VIII, the Reign.
  • Henry VIII A Summary, by Mark Holinshed
  • Pages Guide
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  • Mark Holinshed's Articles
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  • About
  • VIDEO CHANNEL GUIDE
  • The Man Who was Henry VIII An Introduction Video