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Tudor England 1485-1603
http://englishhistory.net/tudor.html
Biographies, FAQs, primary and secondary sources, plus a ‘Test Your Knowledge’ quiz.

Books

The Elizabethan Underworld by Gamini Salgado (Sutton, 1995) £10.99
A beautifully written and illustrated look at the 16th-century world of beggars, criminals and prostitutes.

Disease, Medicine and Society in England 1550-1860 by Roy Porter (Cambridge University Press, 1996) £9.95
Guide to the history of medicine and to English social history from Tudor times to the Industrial Revolution.

Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, plagues and politics by Margaret Healy (Palgrave, 2001) £40
Ranging from the Reformation to the English Civil Wars, this study illuminates the period's disease-impregnated literature, including works by Shakespeare.

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