Best Non-Fiction Books about Tudor England
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Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
by:
Thomas Penn
3.83 avg rating — 4,168 ratings 
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Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status and Origins
by:
Onyeka
4.36 avg rating — 107 ratings 
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
by:
Liza Picard
3.97 avg rating — 1,037 ratings 
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Elizabeth & Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics
by:
Sarah Gristwood
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,944 ratings 19. 
The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
by:
Linda Porter
4.04 avg rating — 3,411 ratings 20. 
The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I
by:
Benjamin Woolley
3.83 avg rating — 812 ratings 
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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage 3.85 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
by:
Karen Lindsey
4.07 avg rating — 1,399 ratings 26. 
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
by:
Eamon Duffy
4.26 avg rating — 1,242 ratings 
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The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton
by:
E.M.W. Tillyard
3.81 avg rating — 825 ratings 30. 
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
by:
Ruth Goodman
4.06 avg rating — 4,692 ratings 
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The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
by:
G.J. Meyer
4.02 avg rating — 9,084 ratings 
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The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada
by:
Neil Hanson
4.19 avg rating — 207 ratings 
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Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
by:
David Baldwin
3.50 avg rating — 113 ratings 48. 
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 (The Penguin History of Britain, 5)
by:
Susan Brigden
3.56 avg rating — 452 ratings 49. 
After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England
by:
Leanda de Lisle
3.83 avg rating — 1,012 ratings 
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Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)
by:
Peter Ackroyd
4.05 avg rating — 3,633 ratings 52. 
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Sallets, Humbles & Shrewsbery Cakes: A Collection of Elizabethan Recipes Adapted for the Modern Kitchen
by:
Ruth Anne Beebe
3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings 
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Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England (Oxford Historical Monographs) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
by:
Julia Fox
3.72 avg rating — 4,235 ratings 
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The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
by:
Alison Weir
3.69 avg rating — 2,642 ratings 
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Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England
by:
Debora Shuger
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 64. 
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
by:
Gareth Russell
4.15 avg rating — 2,238 ratings 
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Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England
by:
Rebecca Lemon
3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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Solon and Thespis: Law and Theater in the English Renaissance
by:
Dennis Kezar
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe 3.83 avg rating — 2,068 ratings
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Graven With Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt. Courtier, Poet, Assassin, Spy
by:
Nicola Shulman
3.86 avg rating — 139 ratings 
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britain
by:
John Morrill
3.83 avg rating — 48 ratings 96. 
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
by:
Jessie Childs
3.95 avg rating — 151 ratings 97. 
The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
by:
Paul Collins
4.02 avg rating — 405 ratings 
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