Gloriana! The Life and Times of Elizabeth I, 1533 - 1603 - Book List

A Good Place To Start:

Goodman, R. How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide To Everyday Life
London: Penguin Books, 2016

Haigh, C. Elizabeth I
London: Longman, 1988

Williams, N. The Life and Times of Elizabeth I
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972

Background Reading

Adams, S. Leicester and the Court: Essays on Elizabethan Politics
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002

Barratt, J. Armada 1588 - The Spanish Assault on England
Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2005

Borman, T. Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen
London: Jonathan Cape, 2009

Collinson, P. The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990

Cooper, T. A Guide to Tudor and Jacobean Portraits
London: National Portrait Gallery, 2008

Doran, S & Freeman, T. (Eds.) Tudors and Stuarts on Film: Historical Perspectives
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Doran, S. & Freeman, T. (Eds.) The Myth of Elizabeth
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Duffy, E. Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009

Ford, E.A. Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming The Lives of Queens
Lexington: The University Press Of Kentucky, 2009

Fraser, A. Mary, Queen of Scots
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969

Girouard, M. Robert Smythson and the Elizabeth Country House
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983

Gristwood, S. Elizabeth and Leicester
London: Bantam, 2007

Guy, J. (Ed.) The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Howard, M. The Tudor Image
London: Tate Gallery, 1995

Hutchinson, R. The Spanish Armada
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013

Jenkins, E. Elizabeth and Leicester
London: Phoenix, 2002

Jewel, H.M. Education in Early Modern England
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998

Latham, B. Elizabeth I in Film and Television: A Study of the Major Portrayals
Jefferson, NC: Mcfarland, 2011

Maccaffrey, W. The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974

Macculloch, D. Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation
London: Allen Lane, 1999

Martin, C. & Parker, G. The Spanish Armada -- 2nd Edition
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999

Mattingly, G. The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959

Oosterhoff, F.G. Leicester and The Netherlands, 1586 - 1587
Utrecht: HES, 1988

Parker, G. The Grand Strategy of Philip II
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998

Richardson, R. E. Mistress Blanche: Queen Elizabeth's Confidante - 2nd Edition
Eardisley: Logaston Press, 2018

Ridley, J. The Life and Times of Mary Tudor
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973

Rivers, I. Classical and Christian Ideas in Renaissance Poetry - A Student's Guide - 2nd Edition
London: Routledge, 1994

Rodger, N.A.M. The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History Of Britain, Volume I 660 - 1649
London: Harpercollins, 1997

Rodríguez-Salgado, M.J. & Adams, S. Eds. England, Spain and the Gran Armada 1585 - 1604
Edinburgh: Donald, 1991

Sinclair, A. Sir Walter Raleigh and The Age Of Discovery
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984

Starkey, D. Elizabeth: Apprenticeship
London: Chatto & Windus, 2000

Strong, R. Gloriana: The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I
London: Pimlico, 2003

Wilson, D. Sweet Robin: A Biography of Robert Dudley, Earl Of Leicester
London: Hamilton, 1981

Yates, F.A. Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century
London: Routledge And Kegan Paul, 1975

Websites

'John Foxe's Acts And Monuments.' A Major Aid To Scholarship, This Website Contains The First Four Editions Of The 'Book Of Martyrs' Published In Foxe's Lifetime - Namely, 1563, 1570, 1576 And 1583.

William Shakespeare From The BBC History Website

A Brief Fly-Through Of Pre-Fire London Created By Students At De Montfort University

All You Could Ever Possibly Want To Know About The Spanish Armada At The British Battles Website:

The Spanish Armada At The National Maritime Museum

Andrew Lacey
February 2024

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