Books by David Loades

David Loades is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wales, an associate of the Centre for Early Modern History at the University of Oxford and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield. A leading authority on Tudor England, he is also a well-known and popular writer on its key personalities and events. He has a particular interest in the Tudor navy, on which he had written the standard study, and has published widely on the period's monarchs and statesmen. Recent books include Henry VIII: Court, church and conflict (2007) and Mary Tudor: The tragical history on the first queen of England (2006; both for the National Archives) and (with Eamon Duffy) The Church of Mary Tudor (2006).