National Year of Reading: Crime and the Tudors

Hear history brought to life vividly through legal records, plea rolls and the assize courts. With the publication of his book ‘A history of criminal Tudor England’, Stephen Wade uncovers a world of murder, faith and cunning which reveal not a distant past, but a living, breathing society which was restless, devout, and dangerously human.
Through tales of fear, faith, and fragile justice, his book plots a course through the many statutes relating to the Reformation and the massive social change seen in this period of English history.
From the achievements of Shakespeare to the social repercussions of Britain breaking from the Papacy, there is far more to Tudor crime stories than the execution of Anne Boleyn.
Stephen Wade is an author, lecturer and consultant who has written over 100 books, many of which are published by leading non-fiction and historical publisher Pen & Sword. His recent books include ‘The women writers’ revolution’ and ‘The worlds of Dorothy L. Sayers’.

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