 | Mary Tudor: A Life by Mr David Loades
Buy new: £20.39 / Used from: £12.00 Probably the best biography to date on Mary I. Fantastic stuff on her relationship with Philip II and her sister Elizabeth Tudor.
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 | The Church of Mary Tudor (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)
Buy new: £59.75 / Used from: £49.72 A refreshing look on the Marian Church. Challenges the usual idea that her church was unpopular with all.
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 | The Lady Mary : A Biography of Mary Tudor 1516-1558 by Milton Waldman
Buy used from: £0.59 A biography that looks at Mary's life prior to her reign. Interesting stuff on Mary's time during her parent's infamous divorce.
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 | Mary Tudor (Women in History) by H.F.M. Prescott
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 This biography is slightly old fashioned. It does provide a sympathetic image of Mary I, but perhaps it overlooks some of Mary's faults as Queen.
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 | The Reign of Mary I (Seminar Studies In History) by Prof Robert Tittler
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £0.92 Excellent study on the reign of Mary I. Looks at the economic problems during her reign and asks whether her reign was actually a failure.
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 | Edward VI and Mary: A Mid-Tudor Crisis?, 1540-58 (Access to History) by Nigel Heard
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £4.74 Very useful A-level text for those studying the reigns of Edward VI and Mary I
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| Life and Times of Mary Tudor (Kings & Queens) by Jasper Ridley
Buy used from: £2.25 A useful and brief biography on Mary. Not sure I agree with Ridley's argument that Mary had an 'aversion to sex' though!
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| The queen and the rebel: Mary Tudor and Wyatt the Younger by Eric N Simons
Buy used from: £35.25 Nice case study on Mary I and Wyatt's rebellion of 1554.
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 | Chronicles of the Tudor Queens by D.M. Loades
Buy used from: £7.50 Primary sources from Mary's reign, including translations of various acts passed during the years 1553-1558 and a translation of Mary's last will.
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 | Elizabeth by David Starkey
Buy new: £6.67 / Used from: £0.01 An excellent biography on Mary's sister, Elizabeth Tudor. The latter half of the book focuses on Elizabeth's life during Mary's reign and the tempestuous relationship between the sisters.
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 | Philip of Spain by H Kamen
Buy new: £33.25 / Used from: £2.86 Brilliant biography on Mary's husband Philip of Spain.
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 | Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet by Thomas F. Mayer
Buy new: £28.49 / Used from: £35.38 Useful biography on one of Mary's closest allies, personal friend and the man sent to England by the Papacy to aid England back to the Catholic Church.
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| Catherine of Aragon by Garrett Mattingly
Buy used from: £47.51 Good biography on Mary's mother.
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 | The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England,1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
Buy new: £11.71 / Used from: £10.00 Superb piece of work on the English Reformation. Examines the popular conservative sentiment that remained in England by 1553. It does focus on the Marian Church.
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| Parliament and the Crown in the Reign of Mary Tudor (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Jennifer Loach
Buy used from: £24.99 A bit hard to get a copy of this, but it is a great look into the dealings of Parliament under Mary I. Shows the picture that the country wasn't in complete turbulence during Mary's reign.
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 | Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Early Christian and Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
Buy new: £6.79 / Used from: £6.94 Had to mention this one. The work that helped to damn Mary's reputation as a Bloody Queen. It focuses on Christian martyrs throughout history including the Marian martyrs.
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 | Bloody Mary's Martyrs: The Story of England's Terror by Jasper Ridley
Buy used from: £4.24 Decent work on the Protestants persecuted during Mary's reign. However it is somewhat one-sided.
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| Tudor Foreign Policy (Modern British foreign policy) by P.S. Crowson
Buy used from: £8.54 A general book on Tudor foreign policy that includes stuff on Mary's alliance with Spain and the conflict with France.
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 | Mary Tudor: The First Queen by Linda Porter
Buy new: £12.54 / Used from: £5.92 The latest biography on Mary that comes out Sept 2007. Can't wait!
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![David Starkey's Monarchy - Series 2 (DVD) [2005]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y04BtW-jL._SL75_.jpg) | David Starkey's Monarchy - Series 2 (DVD) [2005] by Monarchy
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £14.00 Season 2 of Starkey's excellent series on English monarchy focuses on the Tudors and the Stuarts. Mary's reign is dealt with briefly in episode 3.
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 | In the Shadow of the Crown by Jean Plaidy
Buy new: £8.23 / Used from: £2.49 Had to stick in a Plaidy novel in here. Fictional book on the life of Mary I.
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 | The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 Historical fiction that is mostly set in the reign of Mary I. Mary's not the main character but she pops up a lot. Does show her as a woman slightly obsessed with her husband! Bit stereotypical.
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 | Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England by Kathy Lynn Emerson
Buy new: £25.00 / Used from: £26.04 Not really on Mary, but it is a useful book on women during this period.
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 | The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe by Sharon L. Jansen
Buy new: £47.50 / Used from: £35.00 Looks at the controversial issue of female rulers in the sixteenth century. Not just on Mary I, but still interesting.
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 | Six Wives : " The Queens Of Henry VIII " : by David Starkey
Buy new: £16.49 / Used from: £4.09 Had to stick in something on Henry VIII's excessive marriages. Brilliant account of the marriages.
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