David Loades

David Loades

David Michael Loades, FSA[1] (born 19 January 1934[1]) is a British historian and an expert on the Tudor era.[2] He is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wales, where he taught from 1980 until 1996, and was Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield from 1996 until 2008.[1] In the 1960s an1970s he taught at the universities of St. Andrews and Durham.[1] From 1993 until 2004 he acted as Literary Director of the John Foxe Project at the British Academy;[1][3] he is now a Honorary Member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford.[4] After military service in the Royal Air Force 1953–1955,[1] Loades studied at Cambridge University. He has a special interest in the history of the Tudor Navy.[2] He has written many books on the Tudor period, including biographies.[2][5]

Works

  • Two Tudor Conspiracies (Cambridge University Press, 1965; new edition Headstart, 1992)
  • The Oxford Martyrs (Batsford, 1970; Headstart, 1992)
  • Politics and the Nation, 1450–1660 (Fontana, 1974; subsequent editions 1979, 1986, 1992, 1999)
  • The Reign of Mary Tudor (Benn, 1979, second edition Longmans, 1991; German translation 1982)
  • Mary Tudor: A Life (Blackwell, 1989)
  • The Tudor Court (Batsford, 1986)
  • The Tudor Navy: An Administrative, Political and Military History (Aldershot, 1992)
  • The Mid-Tudor Crisis, 1545–1565 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1992)
  • The Politics of Marriage: Henry VIII and his Queens (Sutton, 1994; several subsequent editions; translated into Spanish and Russian)
  • Essays on the Reign of Edward VI (Headstart, 1994)
  • John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 1504–1553 (Oxford University Press, 1996)
  • Tudor Government (Blackwell, 1997)
  • Power in Tudor England (Macmillan, 1997)
  • England’s Maritime Empire: Seapower, Commerce and Policy, 1490–1690 (Longmans, 2000)
  • Elizabeth I (Hambledon Continuum, 2003)
  • Elizabeth I: The Golden Reign of Gloriana (The National Archives, 2003)
  • Intrigue and Treason: The Tudor Court 1547–1558 (Pearson Longmans, 2004)
  • Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England (The National Archives, 2006)
  • The Cecils: Privilege and Power behind the Throne (The National Archives, 2007)
  • Henry VIII: Court, Church and Conflict (The National Archives, 2007)
  • The Princes of Wales (The National Archives, 2008)
  • The Life and Career of William Paulet, c.1475–1572 (Ashgate, 2008)
  • The Fighting Tudors (The National Archives, 2009)
  • The Tudor Queens of England (Hambledon Continuum 2009)
  • Henry VIII: King and Court (The Pitkin Guide, 2009)
  • The Tudors for Dummies (John Wylie & Sons, 2010)
  • Henry VIII (Amberley, 2011)
  • The Boleyns (Amberley, 2011)

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Debretts.com Retrieved 2011-03-11
  2. ^ a b c David Loades The National Archives Retrieved 27-10-2010
  3. ^ BBC History Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 3, March 2006, p. 40
  4. ^ History Tutorials: Meet the Tutors Retrieved 2011-02-26
  5. ^ The American Historical Review, Vol. 109, No. 2, April 2004 Retrieved 27-10-2010

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