This Matter of Faith
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  • These Matters of Faith
  • The books
    • Book I: This Matter of Faith
    • Book II: Heaven's Avenging Angels
    • Book III: No Evil
  • News
  • Historical Research
    • Fiction by other writers
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As an amateur(ish) historian, it is not always in keeping to reference the sources used, particularly not in the text of the fiction. However, it is only right and proper that I should acknowledge as far as I can the material that has led to These Matters and that informs its portrayal of the real historical characters. See the link under the main Research link for relevant novels by a variety of authors. 
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Peter Ackroyd
The History of England Volume II: The Tudors, 2012

Stephen Alford
The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I, 2012
Edward VI: The Last Boy King, 2014

Harold Armitage
Chantrey Land, 1910

​Hugh Bicheno
Elizabeth's Sea Dogs, 2012

S T Bindoff
Ket's Rebellion, 1549​, 1949
Tudor England, 1950
 
Jerry Brotton
This Orient Isle, 2016

Philip Caraman
The Western Rising, 1549: The Prayer Book Rebellion, 1994

Hester W. Chapman
Anne Boleyn, ​1974
Lady Jane Grey, 1941

Julian Cornwall
Revolt of the Peasantry, 1549, 1977

A.G. Dickens
The English Reformation, 1964

Jane Dunn
Elizabeth & Mary, 2003

Geoffrey Elton
England Under the Tudors, 1955
Reformation Europe 1517-1559, 1963

Carolly Erickson
Bloody Mary, 1978

Anthony Fletcher & Diarmaid MacCulloch
Tudor Rebellions, 1968

George MacDonald Fraser
​The Steel Bonnets, 1971

Leonie Frieda
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France​, 2003
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G. B. Harrison (ed)
The Letters of Queen Elizabeth​, 1935

Christine Hartweg
​John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey's Father-In-Law​, 2016

John Hayward
The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth, ​1630

​Lisa Hilton
Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince​, 2014

Dale Hoak
The King's Council in the Reign of Edward VI​, 1976

Martin Hume
​The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth, 1896

Robert Hutchinson
House of Treason: The Rise & Fall of a Tudor Dynasty, 2009

Eric Ives
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, 2009

W. K. Jordan
Edward VI: The Young King​, 1968
Edward VI: The Threshold of Power​, 1970

Jennifer Loach
Protector Somerset, 1994
Edward VI, 1999
(With Robert Tittler, Eds) The Mid Tudor Polity, c1540-1560, 1980

David Loades
Three Tudor Essays, 2014
John Dudley 1504 - 1553: Duke of Northumberland, Lord President of the Council, 2014
The Wyatt Rebellion, 2000
The Fighting Tudors​, 2009

Diarmaid MacCulloch
Thomas Cranmer, 1996
Tudor Church Militant​, 1999

John Maclean
The Life of Sir Thomas Seymour, Knight: Lord High Admiral of England and Master of the Ordnance, 1869

G.J. Meyer
The Tudors: Henry VII to Henry VIII, 2010
​The Tudors: Lady Jane Grey to Elizabeth I, 2010

Ian Mortimer
​The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, 2014

Peter E. Newell
Symond Newell and Kett's Rebellion: Norfolk's Great Revolt against Enclosures, 1549, 2007

Alison Plowden
Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen, 2003
Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk, 1985
Tudor Women: Queens and Commoners; 1979

Linda Porter
Mary Tudor: The First Queen, 2007

Sir Maurice Powicke
The Reformation in England, 1941

Jasper Ridley
A Brief History of the Tudor Age, 2002

A.L. Rowse
The England of Elizabeth
​The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of the Society
The Elizabeth Renaissance: The Cultural Achievement
​, 1972

Frederick William Russell
Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk​, 1859

Margaret Scard
Edward Seymour: Lord Protector, Tudor King in all but Name, 2016

James Shapiro
1606 - Shakespeare and the Year of the Lear​, 2015

Chris Skidmore
Edward VI: The Lost King of England, 2007

David Starkey
Elizabeth: Apprenticehip, 2000

John Sturt
Revolt in the West: the Western Rebellion of 1549, 1987

E.M.W. Tillyard
The Elizabethan World Picture, 1943

John Twigg
A History of Queens' College, Cambridge, 1448-1986​, 1987

Alison Weir
Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII, 1547-1558, 1996

Anna Whitelock
Mary Tudor: England's First Queen, 2009

Penry Williams
The Tudor Regime, 1979

Derek Wilson
A Brief History of The English Reformation, 2012