England Under the Tudors

G.R.Elton (1921–1994) was Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College. Renowned as one of the leading historians of his era and the author of many influential books on the Tudor period, he was also a defender of a traditional, factual-based view of history. He was famous for his role in the influential ‘Carr–Elton Debate’ in the 1960s, where he argued for a scientific approach to history against the historian E.H.Carr’s more relativistic view.

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition – Diarmaid MacCulloch

Preface to the third edition

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

List of maps and diagrams






The Tudor Problem



Henry VII: Securing the Dynasty



Henry VII: Restoration of Government



The Great Cardinal



The King’s Great Matter



Thomas Cromwell and the Break with Rome



The Tudor Revolution: Empire and Commonwealth



The Crisis of the Tudors, 1540-58



England During the Price Revolution



The Elizabethan Settlement



The Growing Conflict, 1568-85



Seapower



War, 1585-1603



The Structure of the Age: Conservatism



The Structure of the Age: Renaissance



The Last Years



Revisions (1990)

Bibliography

Index