ABSTRACT
A good introductory survey is found in R. Lockyer, Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1471-1714 (Longman, 1965), but other particular accounts should also be used. G. R. Elton, England under the Tudors (Methuen, n.i. with n. bibliography 1962) provides the best general survey; S. T. Bindoff, Tudor England (Penguin, n.i. 1969) is particularly illuminating on matters economic; J. A. Williamson, The Tudor Age (Longman, 3rd edn 1965) clarifies matters maritime. Two books offer interpretations of the age by looking at leading personalities: Conyers Read, The Tudors: personalities and practical politics (N.Y., Norton: TABS, n. edn pb 1969) and C. Morris, The Tudors (Batsford, 1955; Collins/Fontana, pb 1966). Of more detailed accounts, the two volumes in the old Longman's Political History of England - H. A. L. Fisher, vol. 5, 1485-1547 (1913) and A. F. Pollard, vol. 6, 1547-1603 (1910) - still give in some ways the best narrative treatment, though both detail and interpretation require much revision; the volumes in the Oxford History of England - J. D. Mackie, The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558 (1952) and J. B. Black, The Reign of Elizabeth (2nd edn 1959) - offer guidance on non-political matters but hardly supersede their older rivals. A general survey of foreign policy is attempted in R. B. Wernham, Before the Armada (Cape, 1966). For the European background, with summaries of relevant English matters, see the New Cambridge Modern History, vol. 2, The Reformation, ed. G. R. Elton (Camb., 1958) and vol. 3, The Counter-Reformation and the Price Revolution, ed. R. B. Wernham (Camb., 1968).
