The best history books of the summer chosen by The Sunday Times Culture Magazine include:
Elizabeth’s Bedfellows
by Anna Whitelock
‘This intimate look at the ladies of Elizabeth I’s court is dazzling and fresh.’
The Children of Henry VIII
by John Guy
‘Involving study of the bitter feuds of Henry VIII’s offspring.’
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England
by Ian Mortimer
What life in 16th-century England was really like.’
p.32-33, The Culture, Sunday Times, 23 June 2013.