One of the advantages of writing historical fiction is that you have a worthy excuse for buying great reference books. Some of the works that I found most useful and dipped into (or even lived in) are listed here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
| \n Title<\/p>\n<\/th>\n | \n Author<\/p>\n<\/th>\n | \n ISBN<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n |
|---|---|---|
| \n Edward VI, The Lost king of England<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Chris Skidmore.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 0-312-35142-9<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n The Arch-Conjuror of England, John Dee<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Glyn Parry<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 978-0-300-11719-6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n Thomas Cranmer<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Diarmid MacCulloch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 978-0-300-07448-2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n Tudors<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Peter Ackroyd<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 978-1-250-05460-9<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n London, The Biography<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Peter Ackroyd<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 978-0-099-42258-7<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n The Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Ian Mortimer<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 978-0-14-312563-1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n Elizabeth’s London<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Liza Picard<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 978-0-312-32566-4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n How to be a Tudor<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Ruth Goodman<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 978-0-241-97371-4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n God’s Secret Agents<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Alice Hogge<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 978-0-06-054228-3<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n The Queen’s Agent<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n John Cooper<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 978-1-60598-410-0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n The Watchers, The Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Stephen Alford<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 978-1-60819-009-6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n The Corporation that Changed the World | \n Nick Robins<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n 978-0-7453-2523-1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \n John Dee, 1527 – 1608<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Charlotte Fell-Smith<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n \n<\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the advantages of writing historical fiction is that you have a worthy excuse for buying great reference books. Some of the works that I found most useful and dipped into (or even lived in) are listed here: Title Author ISBN Edward VI, The Lost king of England Chris Skidmore. 0-312-35142-9 The Arch-Conjuror of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |