The House of Dudley

byJoanne Paul, Kristin Atherton (Read by)

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

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Every Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by their side - or by crushing one beneath their feet.

The Dudley's thrived at the court of Henry VII, but were sacrificed for the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudley's lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. Under Elizabeth I, the family were once again at the centre of power. This time, they would do anything to remain there . . .

With three generations of executed favourites, what caused this family to keep rising so high and falling so low?
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: 9781405952897
  • Length: 1033 minutes
  • Price: £16.00
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