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July 27, 2014

Book Review: Tudor Adventurers

July 27, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

In 1553, an audacious expedition set sail from England headed east in search of a passage to China - a young historians debut work tells the story of that expedition in all its high drama

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james evans, July 2014, Keeping up with the tudors, open letters weekly, tudor adventurers, tudor history
July 27, 2014

Book Review: The Spanish Armada

July 27, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

In 1588 the greatest war-fleet since the Trojan War was launched against the England of Elizabeth I. A gripping new history tells the familiar story for a new generation

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July 27, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
history, July 2014, Keeping up with the tudors, open letters weekly, robert hutchinson, the spanish armada, tudor history
October 22, 2013

Book Review: Henry VIII - The Life and Rule of England's Nero

October 22, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

England's 'bluff king Hal' is put under the microscope in a scathing new biography

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October 22, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
england's nero, english history, henry viii, john matusiak, Keeping up with the tudors, October 2013, open letters weekly, tudor history
October 21, 2013

Book Review: Tudors

October 21, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Our reigning master of vigorous popular history takes on the most vigorous, popular English dynasty of them all

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October 21, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
english history, Keeping up with the tudors, October 2013, open letters weekly, peter ackroyd, tudor history, tudors
August 26, 2012

Book Review: The Men Who Would Be King

August 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Elizabeth I's radical decision to remain unmarried gave hope to every aspiring suitor in the Western world - a new reprint marches us quickly through the usual suspects.

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August 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
August 2012, english history, josephine ross, Queen Elizabeth I, the men who would be king, tudor history
July 12, 2012

Now in Paperback: The Last Divine Office

July 12, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The bishops of Durham Cathedral were also secular princes who could settle legal disputes - and raise armies. A study now out in paperback gives the mighty cathedral and priory the history they deserve.

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July 12, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
durham cathedral, geoffrey moorhouse, July 2012, Keeping up with the tudors, the last divine office, tudor history
January 23, 2012

Book Review: Henry VIII

January 23, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A masterful new biography takes Henry VIII down a peg or two

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January 23, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
biography, david loades, english history, henry viii, January 2012, Keeping up with the tudors, tudor history
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