British History Podcast27 Sep 2023

History Books - Suggestions for your next read

Bibliophiles unite! As Historical Book Club prepares to vote on which books we will be reading in 2024, I covered the 15 books on the long list.

Join me to find your next history read!

The Books

* Elfrida. The First Crowned Queen of England - Elizabeth Norton

* The Red Prince. The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster - Helen Carr

* Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England - Thomas Penn

* Royal Renegades. The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars - Linda Porter

* The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England - Marc Morris

* Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch - Nicola Tallis

* The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown - Anna Keay

* The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones - Thomas Ashbridge

* Tudor: The Family Story - Leanda de Lisle

* Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court - Simon Thurley

* The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England - Janina Ramirez

* Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I - Tracy Borman

* The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court - Gareth Russell

* PAX: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - Tom Holland

* Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe - John Guy and Julia Fox

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