The best history books about the Tudor dynasty of England, ruling from 1485-1603. For newbies and experts alike.
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Tudor: The Family Story
Leanda de Lisle
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)
Peter Ackroyd
The Private Lives of the Tudors
Tracy Borman
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Dan Jones
Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
Thomas Penn
Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick
Nathen Amin
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
Alison Weir
Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors
Nicola Tallis
The Thistle and The Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Tudor
Linda Porter
Henry VIII
J.J. Scarisbrick
Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
Peter Marshall
Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and Politics
David Starkey
Henry VIII: The King and His Court
Houses of Power: The Places That Shaped The Tudor World
Simon Thurley
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
Gareth Russell
Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him: The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
Nicola Clark
Courting Scandal: The Rise and Fall of Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford
James Taffe
Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and His Six Wives Through the Writings of the Spanish Ambassador Eustace Chapuys
Lauren Mackay
Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England
Joanne Paul
The King's Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein
Franny Moyle
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
Diarmaid MacCulloch
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Antonia Fraser
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen
Giles Tremlett
Catherine of Aragon
Garrett Mattingly
Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
Julia Fox
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
Eric Ives
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
John Guy
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