Please click here for Helen Castor’s Daily Telegraph review of Leanda de Lisle’s Tudor : The Family Story. I will put a copy in the school library, and it is noteworthy that its approach is to consider the importance of family ties in the Early Modern Age, rather than merely focusing on the more common ideas such as economics and religion. As Castor states, “this is a deeply human tale, a family tree come to vivid life, rather than a narrative of politics and power structures. Sometimes, she brings a challengingly forensic eye to apparently well-worn information; always, she keeps contemporary or near-contemporary voices at the forefront of her story.”
One final point the Tudor episode of Castor’s She Wolves will be shown in History Society in a couple of weeks. Do come as she is great.
Mr Kydd.
