A Journey Through Tudor England (36 page)
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Authors: Suzannah Lipscomb
Lacey Baldwin Smith,
Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty
(1971)
Robert Hutchinson,
The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracy, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant
(2006)
Suzannah Lipscomb,
1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII
(2009)
J. J. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
(1997)
David Starkey,
Henry: Virtuous Prince
(2009)
Alison Weir,
Henry VIII: King and Court
(2008)
Lucy Wooding,
Henry VIII
(2008)
Henry VIII’s wives
David Starkey,
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
(2004)
Giles Tremlett,
Katherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen
(2011)
Eric Ives,
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy
(2005)
Lacey Baldwin Smith,
A Tudor Tragedy: The Life and Times of Katherine Howard
(1962)
Susan E. James,
Kateryn Parr: The Making of a Queen
(1999) Also republished as
Katherine Parr: Henry VIII’s Last Love
(2009)
Linda Porter,
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr
(2011)
Henry VIII’s courtiers
Peter Ackroyd,
The Life of Thomas More
(1999)
Jessie Childs,
Henry VIII’s Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
(2006)
Barbara J. Harris,
Edward Stafford, third Duke of Buckingham
,
1478—1521
(1986)
David M. Head,
The Ebbs and Flows of Fortune: The Life of Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk
(1995)
Robert Hutchinson,
House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty
(2009)
Diarmaid MacCulloch,
Thomas Cranmer: A Life
(1997)
Nicola Shulman,
Graven with Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt: Courtier, Poet, Assassin, Spy
(2011)
Derek Wilson,
In the Lion’s Court: Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII
(2002)
Edward VI
Chris Skidmore,
Edward VI: The Lost King of England
(2008)
Lady Jane Grey
Eric Ives,
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
(2009)
Mary I
Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman (ed.),
Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives
(2011)
Linda Porter,
Mary Tudor: The First Queen
(2009)
Anna Whitelock,
Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen
(2010)
Elizabeth I
Sarah Gristwood,
Elizabeth and Leicester
(2008)
Anne Somerset,
Elizabeth I
(2002)
David Starkey,
Elizabeth
(2001)
Alison Weir,
Elizabeth the Queen
(2009)
Elizabeth I’s courtiers
Stephen Alford,
Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I
(2011)
Tracy Borman,
Elizabeth’s Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen
(2010)
Malcolm Deacon,
The Courtier and the Queen: Sir Christopher Hatton and Elizabeth I
(2008)
Mary S. Lovell,
Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth
(2006)
Alan Stewart,
Philip Sidney: A Double Life
(2000)
John Sugden,
Sir Francis Drake
(2006)
Penry Williams and Mark Nicholls,
Sir Walter Raleigh: In Life and Legend
(2011)
Raleigh Trevelyan,
Sir Walter Raleigh
(2002)
Benjamin Woolley,
The Queen’s Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr Dee
(2002)
Mary, Queen of Scots
Antonia Fraser,
Mary, Queen of Scots
(1969)
John Guy,
My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
(2004)
War and foreign policy
David Childs,
The Warship Mary Rose: The Life and Times of King Henry VIII’s Flagship
(2007)
Peter Harrington and Brian Delf,
The Castles of Henry VIII
(2007)
Joycelyne G. Russell,
The Field of the Cloth of Gold: Men and Manners in 1520
(1969)
Reformation and religious changes
G. W. Bernard,
The King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church
(2005)
Eamon Duffy,
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400—1580
(2005)
Eamon Duffy,
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
(2010)
Alan Dures,
English Catholicism 1558—1642
(1983)
Christopher Haigh,
English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors
(1991)
Alice Hogge,
God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth’s Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot
(2005)
Peter Marshall,
Reformation England 1480—1642
(2003)
Peter Marshall,
Religious Identities in Henry VIII’s England
(2006)
Rebellions
Michael Bush,
The Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536
(1996)
Anthony Fletcher and Diarmaid MacCulloch,
Tudor Rebellions
,
fifth
edn (2004)
R.W. Hoyle,
The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s
(2003)
Andy Wood,
The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Modern England
(2007)
Shakespeare
James Shapiro,
1599: A year in the Life of William Shakespeare
(2006)
Michael Wood,
In Search of Shakespeare
(2005)
APPENDIX
OPENING TIMES AND HOW TO GET THERE
LONDON AND GREATER LONDON
The Tower of London
Historic Royal Palaces, London EC3N 4AB
Tel: 0844 482 7777
Opening Times: Mar—Oct Tues—Sat, 9am—5.30pm; Sun—Mon 10am—5.30pm; Nov—Feb Tues—Sat, 9am—4.30pm; Sun—Mon 10am—4.30pm
Nearest tube: Tower Hill
Nearest train: Fenchurch Street or London Bridge
There is no parking at the Tower of London
New Armouries Restaurant; cafés
The Tower shop; The Jewel House Shop; The White House Shop; The Medieval Palace Shop; The Beefeater Shop
For accessibility information, please visit
www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/planyourvisit/disabledaccess
National Portrait Gallery
Saint Martin’s Place, London WC2H OHE
Tel: 020 7306 0055; Recorded info: 020 7312 2463
Opening times: Daily 10am-6pm; Thu—Fri until 9pm
Nearest tube: Charing Cross, Leicester Square or Embankment
Nearest train: Charing Cross
There are no car parking facilities at the Gallery
Portrait Café and Portrait Restaurant
The National Portrait Gallery Shop
For accessibility information, please visit
www.npg.org.uk/visit/access/in-the-gallery.php
Westminster Abbey
The Church of England
20 Dean’s Yard, London SW1P 3PA
Tel: 020 7222 5152
Usually open to visitors from Mon to Sat throughout the year, Sundays are reserved for worship
Nearest tube: St James’s Park or Westminster
Nearest train: Victoria or Waterloo
No public parking facilities are available at the Abbey
There is no café at Westminster Abbey
The Westminster Abbey Shop
For a detailed disabled access guide please visit
www.disabledgo.com
The London Charterhouse
Sutton’s Hospital, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6AN
(The London Charterhouse is a private residence)
Tel: 020 7253 9503
Tours of Charterhouse run on Wed afternoons at 2.15pm Apr—Aug. Tours and tickets must be pre-booked by letter with at least three dates and a cheque for £10 per person made payable to ‘Charterhouse’. Please include telephone number and SAE
Nearest tube: Barbican or Farringdon
Nearest train: Liverpool Street or Old Street
Metered parking is available in Charterhouse Square
There is no café at the London Charterhouse
There is no shop, but an illustrated Guide (£7.50) is available from Clerk to the Brothers at the address above
Limited disabled access — check website
Lincoln’s Inn
The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
The Treasury Office, Lincoln’s Inn, London WC2A 3TL
Tel: 020 7405 1393
Lincoln’s Inn Fields is a public square in London and thus open to the public
The Royal Courts of Justice are open to those over 14 years, unless a notice on the doors states ‘In Camera’ or ‘In Private’. Groups of more than 12 are asked to split up and visit different courts to cause least disturbance
Nearest tube: Temple; Holborn; or Chancery Lane
There is parking available in Lincolns Inn Fields
There are numerous cafés and shops in the vicinity
For information about accessibility, please visit
www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/index.php/location/disabled-access
Guildhall
City Remembrancer’s Office
Gresham Street, London EC2
Tel: 020 7332 1313
www.guildhall.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Opening times: Mon—Sat 10am—4.30pm (all year); Sun 10am—4.30pm (first weekend in May to last weekend in Sept), subject to events taking place at Guildhall. Please check that the Great Hall is available up to six weeks prior to the visit date
Nearest tube: Moorgate, Mansion House or St Paul’s
Nearest train: Liverpool Street, Fenchurch Street, Cannon Street, Black-friars or City Thameslink
Public car parking is available on London Wall, Barbican or Aldersgate
There is no café at the Guildhall, but several nearby
There is a bookshop in the Guildhall Library
Suitable for people with disabilities
Eltham Palace
English Heritage
Court Yard, Eltham, Greenwich SE9 5QE
Tel: 0870 333 1181
www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/eltham-palace-and-gardens
Open daily Apr—Oct 10am—5pm; Nov—March 10am—4pm
Nearest train: Eltham or Mottingham (both 1/2 mile)
Parking is available at Eltham Palace
Restaurant, tea room, picnic area
Shop available
Suitable for people with disabilities
Richmond Palace, Surrey
Only traces of Richmond Palace remain, notably the Gatehouse. The site is between Richmond Green and the River Thames. Information about Richmond Palace is available at the Museum of Richmond
The Museum of Richmond, The Old Town Hall,
Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey TW9 1TP
Museum Tel: 020 8332 1141
Museum opening times: Tue—Sat llam—5pm
Nearest tube: Richmond
Nearest train: Richmond
Car parking at Friar’s Lane car park, 100 m
There is no café at the Museum, but many in Richmond itself
The Museum Shop
Suitable for people with disabilities
Hampton Court Palace, Surrey
Historic Royal Palaces
East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9AU
Tel: 0844 482 7777
www.hrp.org.uk/hamptoncourtpalace
Opening Times: Summer 10am—6pm, latest entry to maze 5.15pm; winter 10am—4.30pm, latest entry to maze 3.45pm
Nearest train: Hampton Court
Car parking at Hampton Court Palace and on Hampton Court Green, or Hampton Court railway station
The Tiltyard Café
The Barrack Block Shop; The Henry Shop; The Garden Shop; The Tudor Kitchens Shop
Suitable for people with disabilities, for information please visit
www.hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace/planyourvisit/disabledaccess
SOUTH EAST
St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, Berkshire
The Royal Collection
Windsor, Berkshire SL4 1NJ
Tel: 020 7766 7304
Opening times: Mar—Oct, 9.45am—5.15pm (last admission 4pm); Nov—Feb, 9.45am—4.15pm (last admission 3pm). Please see website for additional closures
Nearest train: Windsor
For parking information visit:
www.windsor.gov.uk
Refreshments from The Undercroft Café. A re-entry band can be obtained from the Middle Ward or Lower Ward shops if you wish to leave the Castle for refreshments in the town’s many cafés
There are three shops, all selling merchandise exclusive to Windsor Castle Suitable for people with disabilities, for more information please see website
The Mary Rose, Hampshire
The
Mary Rose
Trust, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Ltd
College Road, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 3LX
Tel: (Office) 023 9275 0521, (Museum) 023 9281 2931
Open daily from 10am throughout the year; Apr—Oct: Last entry 4.30pm, gates close 6pm; Nov—Mar: last entry 4pm, gates close 5.30pm
Nearest train: Portsmouth Harbour
Car parking at Historic Dockyard Car Park, 400 yards
Costa Coffee; Quick Crepes; Boathouse No. 7; The Georgian; Action Stations Café
Mary Rose shop; Nauticalia; National Museum RN shop; Antiques Storehouse
Limited disabled access — all disabled visitors must be accompanied by a carer. For more information please visit
www.maryrose.org/visit/access_poster.pdf
Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
Dean and Chapter for the Church of England
9 The Close, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9LS
Tel: 01962 857200
The Cathedral is open every day of the year, except for necessary closures
Nearest train: Winchester
There is no parking within the Cathedral Close or the immediate vicinity
Refectory
Cathedral shop
