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British Historical Biographies 1501-1700

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The English

By G. R. Elton

Sir Francis Walsingham: Courtier in an Age of Terror

By Derek Wilson

The Double Life Of Doctor Lopez: The Real Merchant of Venice

By Dominic Green

My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots

By John Guy

Sir Francis Drake

By John Sugden

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz

By Erik Larson

Charles I: The Personal Monarch

By Charles Carlton

Shaftesbury: The Poor Man's Earl

By John Pollock

Anna and the Black Knight: Incorporating Anna's Book

By Fynn

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

The Shakespeares

By Nathaniel Harris, Ken Kirkland

James II (Penguin Monarchs): The Last Catholic King

By David Womersley

Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan

By Patrick Bishop

Guy Fawkes & The Gunpowder Plot

By Peter Brimacombe

John Knox

By Rosalind K. Marshall

The King's Bed: Sex, Power and the Court of Charles II

By Don Jordan, Michael Walsh

The Elizabethans

By A.N. Wilson

First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

By H. Larry Ingle (Professor, Department of History, Professor, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga)

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tudors But Were Afraid to Ask

By Terry Breverton

The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada

By Garrett Mattingly

Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero

By John G. Cummins

Hostage to Fortune: Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

By Lisa Jardine, Alan Stewart

Sir Walter Raleigh

By Robert Lacey

The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper - Rebel Physician

By Benjamin Woolley

The Children of Henry VIII

By Alison Weir

Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

By Linda Levy Peck

The Essays (Penguin Classics)

By Bacon, Francis, Pitcher, John

John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland: Lord President of the Commons

By D. M. Loades

Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen

By Josephine Wilkinson