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Henry VIII
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Websites
Letters of the Six Wives of Henry VIII
www.englishhistory.net/tudor/letters.html
Nice collection of transcribed documents, with notes.
Tudor Succession Problems
www.luminarium.org/renlit/vallieres.htm
Useful summing-up of the succession issue which plagued Henry.
The Works of Henry VIII
www.luminarium.org/renlit/tudorbib.htm
Henry VIII's own, often neglected, artistic side.
Books
The Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and politics by David Starkey
(Vintage, 2002).
Not only a biography of Henry VIII, but also an examination of the great game of politics over which he presided.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison
Weir (Pimlico, 1997) £9.99
Highly praised biography which gives details of Henry's relationships
with all of his wives.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain edited
by John Morrill (Oxford, 2000) £17.50
Invaluable reference work setting Henry's reign in its broad historical context.
Reform and Reformation: England 1509-1558 by Sir Geoffrey Elton
(Edward Arnold, 1977). Out of print.
Magisterial narrative account of the reign of Henry VIII and his immediate successors.
Film
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)
Directed by John Glenister.
Played by Keith Michell, King Henry strides majestically through this
classic BBC costume drama.
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