Resources

I wanted to share here some of the works — books, podcasts, magazine articles, websites — that I’ve used in developing (and maintaining) this course.

Novels, Etc.

• Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall: a Novel. Henry Holt and Co., 2009.
• Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies: a Novel. Henry Holt and Co., 2012.
• Poulton, Mike. Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies: The Stage Adaptation. Picador, 2013.

Biographies

• Borman, Tracy. Thomas Cromwell. Hodder & Stoughton, 2014.
• MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Thomas Cranmer. Yale University Press, 1996.
• MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Thomas Cromwell. Viking, 2018.

Tudor History

• Fraser, Antonia. The Wives of Henry VIII. Vintage Books Random House, 1992.
• Goodman, Ruth. How to Be a Tudor: a Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life. Liveright Publishing Corp, 2017.
• Norwich, John Julius. Shakespeare’s Kings. Touchstone Simon & Schuster, 1999.
• Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England. Penguin Global, 2012.
• Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800. Penguin Global, 1984.
• Thomas, Keith. The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Websites

• “The Anne Boleyn Files.” The Anne Boleyn Files, www.theanneboleynfiles.com/.

Magazine Articles

• TK

Lectures

• Mantel, Hilary. “The Day Is for the Living.” Reith Lectures. 13 June 2017. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08tcbrp
• Mantel, Hilary. “The Iron Maiden.” Reith Lectures. 20 June 2017. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08v08m5
• Mantel, Hilary. “Silence Grips the Town.” Reith Lectures. 27 June 2017. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y6
• Mantel, Hilary. “Can These Bones Live?” Reith Lectures. 4 July 2017. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wp3g3
• Mantel, Hilary. “Adaptation.” Reith Lectures. 11 July 2017. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08x9947