Cromwell Volume 2 Announced

Thursday 21 March 2024

The second of Ronald Hutton’s trilogy of biographies of Oliver Cromwell has made its way to Yale’s online inventory. ‘Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief’ will be published in August...

Henry III paperback for September 2024

Thursday 7 March 2024

The second volume of David Carpenter’s Yale biography of Henry III will be published in paperback in September 2024. Yale has also released the cover image which continues the idea...

New Don Hollway title

Tuesday 5 December 2023

Don Hollway continues his exploration of early English history with his new book on the seven decades leading up to the Norman invasion in 1066. A great read can be expected if you...

Women at war

Thursday 12 October 2023

The 20th Century is beyond the scope of the English Monarchs series, but a new Yale book requires attention in these pages. "Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World...

The Hundred Years War (again)

Saturday 2 September 2023

This week sees the release of the much-awaited concluding volume of Jonathan Sumption’s epic five-volume work The Hundred Years War. Volume 5, 'Triumph and Illusion' brings the narrative...

Getting it off your chest

Tuesday 29 August 2023

The Times book of the year in 2001 was ‘The River Kings’ by Cat Jarman. Her speciality is to examine the historical record as a bioarchaeologist using forensic techniques and detection...

Holland on Rome

Sunday 30 July 2023

A new book by Tom Holland has been published this month. ‘Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age’ looks at the age of great expansion for Rome in the first and second centuries,...

Elizabeth I for 2025

Monday 26 June 2023

Yale University Press has altered the date for the Simon Adams Elizabeth I English Monarchs book to April 2025. The date has slipped back six months from the earlier advised date...

Henry III, Carpenter 2

Monday 22 May 2023

This week Yale is releasing the second volume in Professor David Carpenter’s epic biography of king Henry III. This book covers the period 1258 to 1272, and although a shorter span...

The Revolting 17th Century

Friday 12 May 2023

Bloomsbury Publising has released a new title looking at the turbulent and violent Seventeenth Century written by University of Oxford educator and researcher Dr. Jonathan Healey....

Henrietta Maria

Thursday 13 April 2023

Continuing with recent biographies of well-known women in English history, a recent biography by Leanda de Lisle of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, was released in 2022. The book...

New Tracy Borman Book

Tuesday 21 March 2023

Tracy Borman, novelist and historian, has a new book to be released soon by Hodder and Stoughton. ‘Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: the Mother and Daughter who Changed History’ will be...

The Hundred Years War ends

Monday 30 January 2023

Faber and Faber publishers have announced the release date of the fifth and final book in Jonathan Sumption’s five volume series The Hundred Years War. 'Triumph and Illusion’ will...

Armada 2 (Spain nil)

Wednesday 21 December 2022

This month Yale has published a completely revised edition of Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker’s study of the Spanish Armada. This work was first published in 1988 on the occasion...

Two houses, two kingdoms, two centuries

Monday 21 November 2022

Yale recently released a new title by Catherine Hanley, the author of two books related to the English Monarchs series - her biographies of Matilda and the attempted invasion of England...

Henry III Volume 2 cover and release dates

Saturday 8 October 2022

The second volume of David Carpenter’s epic English Monarchs series biography of Henry III will be released in hardback in the middle of 2023. The book trade is giving various dates...

Richard of Cornwall biography

Saturday 10 September 2022

Darren Baker’s Richard of Cornwall biography has been released in Britain, but North American Book vendors are reporing a revised release date of 15 January 2023. Richard is sorely...

Walter Mauny biography

Sunday 4 September 2022

Amberley Publishing has released the first ever biography of Walter Mauny, an important knight and a key figure in the reign of Edward III. Mauny is far from being a household name...

Richard III exhibition in London

Monday 29 August 2022

The Wallace Collection, at Manchester Square in London, opens its Richard III exhibition next week on 7 September. The webpage for the exhibition says that “This free display traces...

Michael Wood's new Dark Ages

Sunday 31 July 2022

BBC Book is publishing this week a competely revised and re-written version of ‘In Search of the Dark Ages’ by Michael Wood. The author’s landmark TV series for BBC TV in 1980 and...

Cromwell part 1 in paperback

Monday 9 May 2022

Yale has posted a publication date of the paperback version of Volume 1 of ‘The Making of Oliver Cromwell’ by Professor Ronald Hutton. The book will be published with a cover amended...

Wolfson History Prize 2022 Shortlist

Monday 2 May 2022

The 2002 Wolfson History Prize shortlist has been announced and among all the excellenct half-a-dozen titles is one which will be of direct interest to English Monarchs Series readers:...

Edmund of Cornwall biography

Saturday 16 April 2022

Amberley Publishing has released 'Edmund of Cornwall: the Man behind England’s Greatest King' by Michael Ray, ISBN 9781399093545. Edmund was close to the throne, being the nephew...

New Model Army - new edition

Friday 1 April 2022

The latest in a run of new titles from Yale has been released: The New Model Army: agent of revolution’ by Ian Gentles (Distinguished Professor in History at Tyndale University, Toronto)....

Yale's new Georgian book

Thursday 17 March 2022

The run of new history books continues and better still, another one from Yale. January saw the publication of ‘The Georgians: the deeds and misdeeds of 18th Century Britain’, by...

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