Tudors & Stuarts

It is always easier to grasp the great movements of history when the figures moving across the ever-shifting scenes appear as real men and women; when we can picture to ourselves their dress and their food, their manners and their customs, the houses in which they lived, and the work in which they were employed. Thus, and thus only can we live again in the ages that are past. 


Heavily illustrated throughout. Contents include: 


How Men and Women Lived Four Hundred Years Ago 

Henry VII, Columbus, and Cabot. The Age of Discovery 

How Henry VII Ruled England and Prepared the Way for Henry VIII 

How Henry VIII Changed the Old Order; or the Breach with Rome 

Thomas Cromwell and the Destruction of the Monasteries 

The Protestant Edward VI and the Catholic Queen Mary; Violent Changes (1547-1558) 

Queen Mary and King Philip of Spain (1558-1558) 

Elizabeth Queen of England, Mary Queen of Scots, and the National Church 

Spain and the Sea-Rovers 

The Spanish Armada (1588) 

The Doings of Elizabeth's Sailors after the Armada 

England's Greatness in the Days of Elizabeth; Spenser and the Great Shakespeare 

The Great Drama of the Stuart Period 

A Picture of England Three Hundred Years Ago 

What Gunpowder Plot Was (1605) 

The Misrule of the Stuarts—James I (1603—1625) 

The Misrule of the Stuarts—Charles I and the Petition of Right (1625—1628) 

The Misrule of the Stuarts—Charles I and the Eleven Years' Rule without Parliament (1629—1640) 

The Story of the Long Parliament 

The Great Civil War 

Trial and Death of Charles I 

Oliver Cromwell, the Commonwealth, and the Triumph of Puritanism (1649-1660) 

The Reign of Charles II—The "Merrie Monarch" (1660—1685) 

James II and the Glorious Revolution (1688) 

William III and the Revolution Settlement 

Queen Anne and Marlborough 

A Review of Life and Progress in Stuart Times