The House of Dudley

byJoanne Paul

A New History of Tudor England. A TIMES Book of the Year 2022

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Was the House of Dudley out to steal the throne?

This was the question on the mind of Elizabeth I's courtiers when a forbidden book accused generations of the Dudley family of poisonings, plottings, murders, treason, incitement and other 'evil stratagems.'

For decades, the Dudleys had been close to the throne, rising from nobodies to the land's highest offices. Under Henrys VII and VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and, finally, Elizabeth, they risked execution and imprisonment as they audaciously stole, murdered and swindled in the name of the monarch.

But were they loyally protecting the crown, or did they secretly covet it for themselves?
A tour-de-force of Tudor history, as seen through the eyes of a family with a front-row view of almost every major political event in sixteenth-century England. Remarkable
Dan Jones, Sunday Times bestselling author of Powers and Thrones

About Joanne Paul

Joanne Paul is a writer, broadcaster, consultant, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. A BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. She has written for the Cambridge University Press 'Ideas in Context' series, and has been widely praised for her work on Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. Her current academic project is an edition of Thomas More’s Utopia for the Oxford University Press.

Her first book for the trade, The House of Dudley was published in 2022. Thomas More: A Life is publishing Spring 2025.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405937191
  • Length: 608 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 37mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 415g
  • Price: £12.99
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