Book Review: Tudor Adventurers
/In 1553, an audacious expedition set sail from England headed east in search of a passage to China - a young historians debut work tells the story of that expedition in all its high drama
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/In 1588 the greatest war-fleet since the Trojan War was launched against the England of Elizabeth I. A gripping new history tells the familiar story for a new generation
Read MoreBook Review: Henry VIII - The Life and Rule of England's Nero
/England's 'bluff king Hal' is put under the microscope in a scathing new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Tudors
/Our reigning master of vigorous popular history takes on the most vigorous, popular English dynasty of them all
Read MoreBook Review: The Men Who Would Be King
/Elizabeth I's radical decision to remain unmarried gave hope to every aspiring suitor in the Western world - a new reprint marches us quickly through the usual suspects.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Last Divine Office
/The bishops of Durham Cathedral were also secular princes who could settle legal disputes - and raise armies. A study now out in paperback gives the mighty cathedral and priory the history they deserve.
Read MoreBook Review: Henry VIII
/A masterful new biography takes Henry VIII down a peg or two
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