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Bibliography

• Bernard, G. W. The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. (2005). 712 pp. excerpts and text search
• Bernard, G. W. "The Making of Religious Policy, 1533-1546: Henry VIII and the Search for the Middle Way." Historical Journal 1998 41(2): 321-349. Issn: 0018-246x Fulltext: in Jstor
• Elton, G. R. The Tudor Revolution in Government: Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII (1953; revised 1962), major interpretation online edition
• Elton, G. R. Reform and Reformation: England, 1509-1558 (1977), hostile to Henry
• Gardner, James. "Henry VIII" in Cambridge Modern History vol 2 (1903), a brief political history online edition
• Ives, E. W. "Henry VIII (1491–1547)", in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), online at OUP, a good starting point
• Graves, Michael. Henry VIII (2003) 217pp, topical coverage
• Loades, David. Henry VIII: Court, Church and Conflict (2007) 248pp; by a leading scholar excerpt and text search
• MacCulloch, Diarmaid, ed. The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy, and Piety. (1995). 313 pp. essays by scholars
• Mackie, J. D. The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558 (1952), a political survey of the era online edition
• Lindsey, Karen. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII (1995) online edition
• Pollard, A.F. Henry VIII (1905) 470 pp; the first modern biography, accurate and still valuable valueonline edition
• Rex, Richard. Henry VIII and the English Reformation. (1993). 205 pp.
• Scarisbrick, J. J. Henry VIII (1968) 592pp, a favourable scholarly biography; his Henry was "a formidable, captivating man who wore regality with a splendid conviction. But easily and unpredictably his great charm could turn into anger and shouting.... He was high-strung and unstable; hypochondriac and possessed of a strong streak of cruelty."
• Slavin, Arthur J., ed. Henry VIII and the English Reformation (1968), readings by historians. online edition
• Smith, H. Maynard. Henry VIII and the Reformation (1948) online edition
• Smith, Lacey Baldwin. Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty (1971), a leading scholar writes the psycho-history of an egotistical border-line neurotic given to great fits of temper and deep and dangerous suspicions, with a mechanical and conventional, but deeply-held piety, and no better than a mediocre intellect to hold these contradictory forces in harness. online edition
• Starkey, David. Six Wives: the Queens of Henry VIII (2003) excerpt and text search
• Starkey, David. The Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and Politics (1986).
• Walker, Greg. Writing under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation. (2005). 556 pp.
• Weir, Alison. Henry VIII, King and Court (2001). 640pp a flattering portrait excerpt and text search
• Weir, Alison. The Children of Henry VIII. (1996). 400 pp.

Historiography and memory

• Head, David M. "'If a Lion Knew His Own Strength': the Image of Henry VIII and His Historians." International Social Science Review 1997 72(3-4): 94-109. Issn: 0278-2308 Fulltext: Ebsco
• Hoak, Dale. "Politics, Religion and the English Reformation, 1533-1547: Some Problems and Issues." History Compass 2005 3 (Britain and Ireland): 7 pp Issn: 1478-0542 Fulltext: Blackwell Synergy
• Ives, Eric. "Will the Real Henry VIII Please Stand Up?" History Today 2006 56(2): 28-36. Issn: 0018-2753 Fulltext: Ebsco

Primary sources

• Williams, C. M. A. H. English Historical Documents, 1485-1558 (1996) online sources