John Guy is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He is recognised as one of Britain’s most exciting historians, having lectured extensively on Early Modern British History and Renaissance Political Thought in both Britain and the United States.
He has so far presented five documentaries for BBC 2 television, including The King’s Servant (on Thomas More) and the four-part Renaissance Secrets (series 2), and has contributed to Meet the Ancestors (BBC 2) and to Channel 4’s Time Team and Royal Deaths and Diseases. Wolsey’s Lost Palace of Hampton Court was a short-listed finalist for the 2002 Channel 4 television awards.
John Guy also appears regularly on BBC Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, BBC World Service and BBC Scotland, and he currently writes or reviews for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Economist, the Times Literary Supplement, BBC History Magazine and History Today.
24 Электронные книги John Guy
John Guy: Thomas More
‘If the English people were to be set a test to justify their history and civilization by the example of one man, then it is Sir Thomas More whom they would perhaps choose.’ So commented The Times in …
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John Guy: Children of Henry VIII
Behind the facade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama. Nothing drove Henry VIII, England’s wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male …
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John Guy: Children of Henry VIII
Behind the facade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama. Nothing drove Henry VIII, England’s wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male …
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€10.71
John Guy: Tudors
The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this …
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John Guy: Tudors
The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this …
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€4.84
John Guy: Queen of Scots
This Whitbread Award–winning biography and basis for the film Mary Queen of Scots starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie “reads like Shakespearean drama” (The Atlanta Journal …
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John Guy: Thomas Becket
From Thomas Becket’s early life as a merchant’s son and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury to his assassination in the Cathedral itself, this enlightening book brings to life a colossal figure …
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John Guy: Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs)
Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend — and in the process destroyed and remade England. Said to be a ‘pillager of the c …
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John Guy: Elizabeth
‘A masterful biography’ Amanda Foreman’A gripping story of Queen Elizabeth’s last years, authoritatively researched and engagingly recounted by the leading Tudor historian of our age’ James Shapiro, …
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John Guy: Daughter’s Love
Leading British historian John Guy, author of Thomas Becket and My Heart is My Own, uncovers one of the most touching and compelling family relationships in history in A Daughter’s Love.Sir Thomas Mo …
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John Guy: My Heart is My Own
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period.For centuries, Mary, Queen of Scots has been a figure of schol …
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John Guy: Mary Queen of Scots
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARDNow a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period.For centuries, Mary, Qu …
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John Guy: Gresham’s Law
Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidden power behind three out of the five Tudor monarchs …
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John Morgan-Guy: Treasures: The Special Collections of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David was originally founded in 1822 as St David’s College, Lampeter. It is now the oldest higher education collegiate institution in Wales, and in its two hundr …
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€21.99
Julia Fox & John Guy: Hunting the Falcon
A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIIIs long courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn. Hunt …
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€26.12
John Guy: Castles of Kent Through Time
Kent has an impressive collection of castles, over sixty including the scanty ruins and earthwork remains of now vanished ones, as well as the more celebrated castles, such as Leeds, Rochester and Do …
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€16.63
John Guy & Julia Fox: Hunting the Falcon
A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever.’I …
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€13.35
John Guy & Julia Fox: Hunting the Falcon
A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever.’I …
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John Guy & Julia Fox: Jagd auf den Falken
London 1533: Anne geht auf die dreißig zu und hat es ganz nach oben geschafft: Sie ist die Königin von England, gekrönt in der Westminster Abbey. Ihre Geschichte ist der Stoff für opulente Hollywoodf …
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John Guy & Julia Fox: Jagd auf den Falken
London 1533: Anne geht auf die dreißig zu und hat es ganz nach oben geschafft: Sie ist die Königin von England, gekrönt in der Westminster Abbey. Ihre Geschichte ist der Stoff für opulente Hollywoodf …
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John Guy: Politics, Law and Counsel in Tudor and Early Stuart England
This book investigates the norms and values of Tudor and early-Stuart politics, which are considered in the contexts of law and the Reformation, legal and administrative institutions, and classical a …
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€64.37
John Guy: Politics, Law and Counsel in Tudor and Early Stuart England
This book investigates the norms and values of Tudor and early-Stuart politics, which are considered in the contexts of law and the Reformation, legal and administrative institutions, and classical a …
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€64.44