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Tudors and Stuarts

Your Noblest Shippe: Anatomy of a Tudor Warship
edited by Peter Marsden
This volume is concerned primarily with a detailed description of the Mary Rose and how she operated as a functional warship. Commencing with a discussion of the place of the Mary Rose in the development of warships; her recovery and recording are described and the method by which she has been reconstructed on paper. Evidence is presented for how the ship was designed and built and how the timbers were fashioned. The structure of ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

Sealed by Time: The Loss and Recovery of the Mary Rose
by Peter Marsden
Although the wreck of the Mary Rose was raised twenty years ago, the excavations and conservation work and indeed the ship itself have never been published in full. Now the Mary Rose Trust, with the Heritage Lottery Fund is publishing the complete history of the project and the research up to the present day in five highly illustrated volumes, revealing a wealth of information covering all aspects of the ship. Sealed by Time: The Loss and ...
Hardback. Price GB £19.95

Weapons of Warre: The Armaments of the Mary Rose
edited by Alexzandra Hildred
This volume is devoted to consideration of the ordnance, munitions and equipment for war - the raison d'être for the building of the Mary Rose. It begins with a full description of the guns, followed by discussion of the many objects that relate to their use: the shot, the gunpowder and the items needed for loading and firing, as well the experiments that have been carried out in the manufacture and use of specific gun types, carriages and ...
Hardback. Price GB £49.95

For Future Generations: Conservation of a Tudor Maritime Collection, Mary Rose Volume Five
by Mark Jones
The Mary Rose, one of the first great British warships and Henry VIII's flagship, sank in 1545, taking all her contents and most of her crew to the bottom of the sea. The conservation of the hull of the Mary Rose, and more than 26,000 objects recovered during her excavation, has been a massive undertaking. The complex process of conservation was begun even before the hull was raised from the seabed in 1982, and continues today. For Future ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.95

Nonsuch Palace: The Material Culture of a Noble Restoration Household
by Martin Biddle
Nonsuch in Surrey was Henry VIII's last and most fantastic palace. Begun in 1538, at the start of the 30th year of Henry's reign, the palace was intended as a triumphal celebration of the power and the grandeur of Henry VIII and the Tudor dynasty. The site was chosen for its fine countryside and hunting potential. Although the layout was fairly typical for a house of this period, arranged around two main courtyards, there its 'ordinariness' ends. ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £60.00, Our Price GB £15.00

Stuart Cookery
by Peter Brears
Including over thirty recipes from the 17th century, this book also reveals the turbulent history of this troubled time when the country cast off its medieval traditons. It describes how new and more sophisticated tastes were reflected in the diet of the nation and the way people cooked and ate their meals. French cuisine became popular with the gentry; the medieval great hall was replaced by a smaller and more intimate dining room, and pottery ...
Hardback. Price GB £7.99

Material culture in London in an age of transition: Tudor and Stuart period finds c. 1450 - c. 1700 from Excavations at Riverside sites in Southwark
by Geoff Egan
Material culture in London in an age of transition is a major new illustrated catalogue of a rare assemblage of items from the Tudor and Stuart periods, mostly from waterlogged riverside sites. Objects of leather, bone, wood and glass as well as metal (with metallurgical analyses) include clothing and accessories; household equipment, fixtures and fittings; and items attesting writing, reading and leisure pursuits, as well as textile ...
Paperback. Price GB £17.95

The Inventory of King Henry VIII: Volume I, The Transcript
edited by David Starkey, transcribed by Philip Ward and indexed by Alasdair Hawkyard
This vast catalogue of the possessions of the Henry VIII on his death in 1547 contains c.18,000 entries; these range from the Crown jewels to bandages for the kings ulcerated leg! The Inventory provides a huge amount of information for historians on the material success of Henry and his forebears, as well as being of practical help in identifying surviving objects as the king's or otherwise. The transcript is accompanied by a historical ...
Hardback. Price GB £98.00

Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters
by Felix Pryor
Published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Elizabeth I's death in 1603, this book presents sixty letters that were written either by Elizabeth (or by a third party for her to sign) or to her. The earliest letter was written by Elizabeth at the age of eleven to her father Henry VIII, the latest to James VI of Scotland, written in her 70th years. Other documents include letters to her brother Edward VI, her siste Mary, the Duke of Anjou, as ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

The Inventory of King Henry VIII: Textiles and Dress
edited by Maria Hayward and Philip Ward
The Inventory is not only a catalogue of magnificence but also a key text for evaluating the successes and failures of the Tudor monarchy. Henry VIII had extravagant ideas of image and authority and loved his possessions, amongst which where over 2,000 pieces of tapestry, 2,028 items of gold and silver plate and 41 growns. Although he left the country with heavy debts and an empty exchequer, he was far from bankrupting the monarchy as some ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £123.00