RECOMMENDED READING This is a recommended reading list from a college course on Tudor History that I took in the early 1990s. Most of these books are rather scholarly and analytical, but there are some that are nice for recreational reading as well. I have made a few additions and subtractions from the original list. The listing is in rough chronological order from the reign of Henry VII to the reign of Elizabeth. I also have some recommended reading on the Student Help page. G. R. Elton, England under the Tudors J. A. Williamson, The Tudor Age R. Lockyer, Tudor and Stuart Britain 1471-1714 (2nd. ed.) J. R. Lander, Government and Community: England 1450-1509 P. Williams, The Tudor Regime S. B. Chrimes, Henry VII M. Bennet, The Battle of Bosworth Field G. R. Elton, The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentaries G.R. Elton, The Tudor Revolution in Government C. Coleman and D. Starkey (eds.), Revolution Reassessed J. Hurstfield, The Queen's Wards G. R. Elton, Policy and Police J.J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII A.F. Pollard, Wolsey J. A. Guy, The Cardinal's Court: The Influence of Wolsey on the Star Chamber A. G. Dickens, The English Reformation E. Duffy, The Stripping of ther Altars C. Haigh (ed), The English Reformation Revised R. Whiting, The Blind Devotion of the People L. Solt, Church and State in Early Modern England, 1509-1640 C. J. Sommerville, The Secularization of Early Modern England A. Fox, Thomas More: History and Providence R. Marius, Thomas More G. Mattingly, Catherine of Aragon E. Ives, Anne Boleyn R. Warnicke, Anne Boleyn (also titled "The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn") A. Fletcher, Tudor Rebellions J. Cornwall, The Revolt of the Peasantry, 1549 S. Anglo, Spectacle, Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy R. B. Outhwaite, Inflation in Tudor and Early Stuart England C. E. Challis, The Tudor Coinage A. Appleby, Famine in Tudor and Stuart England D. C. Coleman, The Economy of England, 1450-1750 R. Davis, English Overseas Trade 1500-1700 E. A. Wrigley & R. S. Schofield, The Population History of England, 1541-1871 R. H. Tawney, The Agrarian Problem of the Sixteenth Century E. Kerridge, Agrarian Problems of the Sixteenth Century and After P. Slack, Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England A.L. Beier, Masterless Men: the vagrancy problem in England, 1560-1640 P. Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History L. Stone, The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558-1641 L. Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800 M. Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage, 1570-1640 K. Charlton, Education in Renaissance England M. Curtis, Oxford and Cambridge in Transition H. Kearney, Scholars and Gentlemen D. Cressy, Literacy and the Social Order K. Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic A. Macfarlane, Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England W. Notestein, A History of Witchcraft in England P. French, John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus M. MacDonald and T. Murphy, Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modern England W. K. Jordan, Philanthropy in England, 1480-1660 A. Macfarlane, The Origins of English Individualism J. Summerson, Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 E. Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530-1790 M. L. Bush, The Government Policy of Protector Somerset D. M. Loades, The Reign of Queen Mary W. Haller, The Elect Nation E. M. W. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture R. B. Wernham, Before the Armada F. Fernandez-Armesto, The Spanish Armada C. Wilson, Queen Elizabeth and the Revolt of the Netherlands D.B. Quinn, England and the Discovery of America J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons M. Kishlansky, Parliamentary Selection J. E. Neale, Queen Elizabeth and Her Parliaments, 2 vols. G.R. Elton, The Parliament of England, 1559-1581 P. Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement P. Collinson, The Religion of Protestants M. M. Knappen, Tudor Puritanism J. Bossy, The English Catholic Community, 1570-1870 W. MacCaffrey, The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime W. MacCaffrey, Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy L. B. Smith, Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia A. Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots J. Wormald, Mary Queen of Scots G. Donaldson, The Scottish Reformation H. Ellis, Tudor Ireland K. R. Andrews, N. Canny and P. Hair (eds.), The Westward Enterprise S. Folarin, Black People in Britain, 1555-1833 R. Usher, The Rise and Fall of the High Commission C. G. Cruikshank, Elizabeth's Army L. Boynton, The Elizabethan Militia F. Yates, Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century