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A pack of 10 postcards featuring quotations from Tudor and Renaissance men and women, all of whom made their mark on their times. The quotations range from the inspiring to…
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Tudor Times
Lady Margaret Beaufort was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses. Lancastrian by birth and her marriage to Henry VI’s half-brother, she was later a prominent courtier at…
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James IV was one of the most successful of all the Kings of Scotland. He expanded the reach of the Crown, began to build a navy, and increased the importance…
Katherine Parr was, perhaps, one of Henry VIII’s luckier queens. She survived him, and he remained fond of her until the end. Nevertheless, her tenure as the ageing monarch’s wife…
The death of Lady Margaret Pole is famous as one of Henry VIII’s more tragic victims. Aged 68, she was executed without trial, in a botched execution on Tower Green…
Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, lived a dangerous, and action-packed life. Niece of Henry VIII, she was both aunt and mother-in-law of Mary, Queen of Scots. Her determination to…
Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon, was the first woman crowned as sovereign in England. Her life veered between triumph and tragedy, as the doted on…
Katharine of Aragon is one of the most famous queens in European history. First wife of Henry VIII of England, she was at his side for over half his reign…
Tudors & Stewarts 2015 is a collection of twelve Profiles of interesting or influential personalities at the English and Scottish Courts during the sixteenth century. The collection encompasses royalty, nobles…
Cardinal Wolsey was Henry VIII’s chief minister for some fifteen years - during that period, he negotiated treaties, organised military campaigns, planned the great spectacle of the Field of Cloth…
Marie of Guise was whisked from a quiet childhood in a convent to an arranged marriage with a French Prince du Sang at the instigation of Francois I. Widowed within…
Thomas Cromwell has been in the limelight recently, with the huge success of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winning Wolf Hall and its television adaptation. This Tudor Times Insight gives a…
Lady Penelope Devereux lived a life of romance and intrigue - Sir Philip Sidney’s muse, and sister to the ill-fated Earl of Essex, this great-grand-daughter of Mary Boleyn was one…
Lady Katherine Grey was the second of the ill-fated Grey sisters. Her elder sister, Lady Jane Grey, was executed for being a pawn in an attempt to subvert the Tudor…
Sir James Melville is little known today, but he lived a life at the heart of Anglo-Scottish politics in the second half of the sixteenth century. Son of a traitor…
Love Britain’s Bloody Crown, Channel 5’s series on the Wars of the Roses, but losing track of all of the individuals as they change sides, fall in battle, or are…
James Stewart, Earl of Moray was an illegitimate son of James V. He played a pivotal role in the politics of Scotland between 1555 and his assassination in 1571, first…
Bess of Hardwick rose from obscurity to be one of the richest women in England and a friend of Elizabeth I. Her story is one of determination, grit, ambition and…
Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke and Duke of Bedford is one of the unsung heroes of the Lancastrian cause. The half-brother of Henry VI, he was treated generously by the…
James VI of Scotland became James I of England in 1603. He was thirty-six years old, and had been a king for nearly all his life, negotiating the complex politics…
Margaret Tudor was the much loved and pampered daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Married to the charismatic James IV of Scotland, her life as a queen-consort was…
Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley was at Elizabeth I’s side from the day she became Queen until his death forty years later. During that period they worked closely together -…
James V’s life, although short, was action packed. King from the age of eighteen months, he weathered a difficult minority, as Scottish lords around him vied for supremacy in a…
The Tudor Book of the Garden has been designed as a practical garden journal for the twenty-first century whilst sharing extensive information about the Tudor garden and gardener. Its dedicated…
Hugely informative and stunningly produced, the Mary, Queen of Scots Book of Days pairs a practical perpetual diary with a wealth of material on the life and times of Mary…
The Tudor Book of Days is a beautifully produced perpetual diary inspired by The Tudor Book of Hours, designed for keeping important dates, events and seasonal notes in a personal…
Hugely informative and stunningly produced, the Elizabeth I Book of Days pairs a practical perpetual diary with a wealth of material on the life and times of the last Tudor…
Rebecca Wilson
The story of 10 Renaissance Women Ahead of their Time.
Aimee Fleming
Margaret More Roper may be remembered as the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, but she was much, much more. Well-educated, loyal, passionately pious, and a skilled writer and translator…
A pack of 5 bookmarks featuring quotations from renowned Tudor and Renaissance scholars and writers, Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Desiderius Erasmus and Leonardo da Vinci.
A pack of 5 bookmarks featuring quotations from renowned Tudor and Renaissance scholars and writers, Francis Bacon, Desiderius Erasmus and Leonardo da Vinci.
Frances Lady Bushby
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Children are fascinated by the past and this poetic interpretation of life in Tudor times makes History fun and accessible to everyone. From the very real Christopher Columbus and Henry…
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A pack of 10 greeting cards with quotations from Tudor and Renaissance figures, whose words, inspiring us to grasp our opportunities, still strike a chord with us today. The striking…
Kathryn Senior
Discover what it was like to be a barber surgeon in the sixteenth century and why it was a terrible time for people to be sick. Sharpen your saw before…
Paul Thomas
The Tudor period was a turbulent one, characterised by political strife, religious change, wars, economic catastrophe, social disorder and rebellion. Paul Thomas provides an account of these issues and examines…
Edith L Elias
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Alan Childs
Follow Kit and Tom’s lucky escape from the tragic sinking of the Mary Rose in the King’s Ship. Gilbert and Jane must solve the mystery when a strange visitor arrives…
Ernest Law
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Billy Wellman
Embark on the Grand Voyage Through English History: From Stone Circles to Royal Courts
Four manuscripts in one book:
The History of England: An Enthralling Overview of English History Medieval…
Emily Sarah Holt
Title: Isoult Barry of Wynscote her diurnal book: a tale of Tudor times.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is…
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: R. Carter and Brothers Subjects: Fiction / Mystery
Mark Twain
[Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a short risque squib by Mark Twain…
Isoult Barry of Wynscote, Her Diurnal Book: A Tale of Tudor Time is a historical fiction novel written by Emily Sarah Holt and originally published in 1872. The story is…
Ivy Pinchbeck,Margaret Hewitt
The present volume represents the first half of a study of the social concern for children in England from the Tudor paternalism of the mid-sixteenth century to the legislation of…
Step back in time with this evocative portrait of Tudor-era London. From the glittering court of Henry VIII to the squalid alleys of the East End, Besant captures the essence…
