This page makes available some of the more academic or student-related material for which I am regularly asked and which, especially in the case of AS/A2 and undergraduate material, updates Tudor England. You can also find the texts of some recent formally scripted public lectures that I gave at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Cambridge University, the Institute of Historical Research, and the Bath Literary Festival.

All material is © 2008, but may be used freely and without further permission, provided an acknowledgement is given to this website.

AS/A2 level

• A Mid-Tudor Crisis?
• Aims and Successes of Henry VII's Foreign Policy
• Henry VII: Founder of Stability or Incompetent Monarch
• Henry VIII and Cromwell
• Henry VIII: an Image of Monarchy
• More's Utopia
• Parliament and Prerogative in the Reign of Elizabeth
• Wales and the Reformation
• The Tudor Privy Council
• Tudor Parliaments
• Letters and Speeches of Elizabeth I
• Were Elizabethan Politics Factional?
• Policy-making in the Reign of Henry VIII
• Elizabeth I and Politics: the Views of Historians
• Henry VIII and Wolsey: the Relationship
• Wolsey's Domestic Policy
• Wolsey's Fall
• Wolsey's Foreign Policy
• Wolsey's Significance

Undergraduate

• Thomas Cromwell and the Intellectual Origins of the Henrician Revolution
• Tudor Monarchy and its Critiques
• Tudor Monarchy as Renaissance Monarchy
• The Marian Court and Tudor Policy-Making
• The Early Reformation: An Agenda
• Elizabethan Reformation: An Agenda
• Protestant Reformation Under Edward VI: An Agenda
• Henrician Reformation: An Agenda
• Ideas of Counsel Under Henry VIII
• Elizabeth and Cecil

Public lectures

• Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots
• For what did Thomas More so silently die?
• Imagining and Detecting Conspiracy 1571-1605
• Mary Stuart and the Failure of the Darnley Marriage

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