Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide

Books 2014 that also featured Lady Jane:

Posted on 8th December 2014 by Tamise

An Illustrated Introduction to the Tudors (Paperback) by Gareth Russell

‘The six monarchs of the Tudor dynasty are phenomenally well known. Henry VII succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses, Henry VIII formed the Church of England and famously married six times: Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Katherine Parr. His three children, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, would all ascend to the throne, as would his great-niece Lady Jane Grey. Between them they ruled for an eventful 118 years. This easy-to-follow introduction to the Tudors follows the major events and personalities of the age.’

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Posted on 4th December 2014 by Tamise

4 December – Edward VI (Penguin Monarchs): The Last Boy King by Stephen Alford

‘ Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, became king at the age of nine and died wholly unexpectedly at the age of fifteen. All around him loomed powerful men who hoped to use the child to further their own ends, but who were also playing a long game – assuming that Edward would long outlive them and become as commanding a figure as his father had been.

Stephen Alford’s wonderful book gives full play to the murky, sinister nature of Edward’s reign, but is also a poignant account of a boy learning to rule, learning to enjoy his growing power and to come out of the shadows of the great aristocrats around him. England’s last child monarch, Edward would have led his country in a quite different direction to the catastrophic one caused by his death.’

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Congratulations to Jessie Childs…

Posted on 3rd December 2014 by Tamise

‘God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England’ by Jessie Childs has been picked as a History Read of the Year in both the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph.

You can read the Daily Telegraph’s review here:

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From the Sunday Times Culture:

‘For those families who had remained loyal to their Catholic faith, Elizabethan England could be a terrifying world of suspicion and persecution. And although Childs’s book scrupulously avoids taking sides, she brings her subject alive through the story of one family; the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall, whole religion made them deeply suspect in a country haunted by fears of Catholic terrorism. The result is a splendidly evocative portrait, not just of a family, but of an anxious, even paranoid age.’

Sunday Times Culture, p.39.
30 November 2014

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Posted on 13th November 2014 by Tamise

13 November – Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton

‘Lisa Hilton’s majestic biography of Elizabeth I, ‘The Virgin Queen’, provides vibrant new insights on a monarch who continues to compel and enthral readers. It is a book that challenges readers to reassess Elizabeth’s reign, and the colourful drama, scandal and intrigue to which it is always linked. Lisa Hilton uses new research in France, Italy, Russia and Turkey to present a fresh interpretation of Elizabeth as a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince, delivering a very different perspective on Elizabeth’s emotional and sexual life, and upon her attempts to mould England into a European state. Elizabeth was not an exceptional woman but an exceptional ruler, and Hilton redraws English history with this animated portrait of an astounding life. Her biography maps Elizabeth’s dramatic journey from timid, newly crowned queen to one of the most powerful and vivid monarchs ever to rule England.’

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