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Medieval/Early Modern Nonfiction

Nonfiction titles concerning events, people, and history from the Medieval/Early Modern periods! Many of these are suggestions from the PB community as shared in the Medieval Times quest forum.

Recommendations always welcome!

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

Women in the Middle Ages

Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

Women in the Middle Ages

New Perspectives

Well that was enlightening

Please feel free to comment suggestions!

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Educated

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

War The Roses / Tudor Era

Both Fiction and Non-fiction books around War Of The Roses and Tudor era.

Feel free to comment additional books! I'm just adding books as I find them.

Wolf Hall

The White Queen

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII

Wolf Hall

The White Queen

It's Just a Numbers Game

by booked_and_cozy

List of books with numbers in the title.

Ready Player One

Two Twisted Crowns

The Two Towers

One Dark Window

Ready Player One

Two Twisted Crowns

The Tudors

The best history books about the Tudor dynasty of England, ruling from 1485-1603. For newbies and experts alike.

After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England

Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens

Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage

The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I

After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England

Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens

Educational Gossip

Non-fiction about topics/topics presented in a way that they feel almost like gossip.

Educated

I’m Glad My Mom Died

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

Educated

I’m Glad My Mom Died

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