books by subject
British Historical Biographies 1501-1700

The English

Sir Francis Walsingham: Courtier in an Age of Terror

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

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

Sir Francis Drake

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

Charles I: The Personal Monarch

Shaftesbury: The Poor Man's Earl

Anna and the Black Knight: Incorporating Anna's Book

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

The Shakespeares

James II (Penguin Monarchs): The Last Catholic King

Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan

Guy Fawkes & The Gunpowder Plot

John Knox

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

The Elizabethans

First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

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

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

The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada

Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero

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

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper - Rebel Physician

The Children of Henry VIII

Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

The Essays (Penguin Classics)

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