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Book categories: The Stuarts, Women, Arbella, Politics & Law, Stuart Era, Palaces, James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II, William and Mary, Anne, Old Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Fiction, English Royalty, Scottish Royalty

The Stuart Monarchy

The Stuarts by John Miller. Examines the individual Stuart monarchs and the Stuart dynasty as a whole.

The Royal Stuarts by Allan Massie. Tells the family's full story, from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England, and eventual exile. Available from Alibris.

A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714 by Mark Kishlansky. Provides an introduction to the monarchs and their times. This is the sixth volume in the Penguin History of Britain series.

The Stuarts edited by Antonia Fraser. Part of the Royal History of England series from Antonia Fraser, one of the best-known authors of books on royal history.

The Early Stuart Kings, 1603-1642 by Graham E. Seel and David L. Smith. Explores the personalities and events of the turbulent early Stuart era, from the reign of James I to the English Civil War.

State, Sovereigns & Society in Early Modern England edited by Charles Carlton and Robert L. Woods. Essays about the Tudors and Stuarts.

Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England by Peter C. Herman. Devotes a chapter each to poetry written by Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. A postscript examines verses that circulated under Charles I's name after his execution.

The Sickly Stuarts: The Medical Downfall of a Dynasty by Frederick Holmes. The author argues that the course of British history might have been very different if not been for the physical frailty of James I, James II, and Charles I.

The Royal Doctors 1485-1714 by Elizabeth Lane Furdell is about medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts.

Dynasty: The Stuarts, 1560-1807 by John MacLeod. Popular history. Out of print, but available from Alibris.

The Stuart Courts edited by Eveline Cruickshanks. Essays about the cultural and administrative aspects of the Stuart courts in England, Scotland, and Ireland. From Alibris.

Books About Scotland's Stewarts

Stuart Princesses & Other Women

Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown by Maureen Waller. In 1688, seven prominent men invited William of Orange to intervene in English affairs. But it was the women, Queen Mary Beatrice and her stepdaughters Mary and Anne, who played a key role in this drama.

Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens edited by Clare McManus. Literature, theater, patronage, and commissioning in the courts of Anna of Denmark (1603-19) and Henrietta Maria (1625-42).

Women According to Men: The World of Tudor-Stuart Women by Suzanne W. Hull. Discusses the rules for women's behavior, theories on conception, health habits, and more.

Arbella Stuart

Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood. Biography of Lady Arbella Stuart, a determined, passionate young woman who was a pawn in the struggle for succession to Queen Elizabeth I.

The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart by Arbella Stuart, edited by Sara Jayne Steen. Lady Arbella Stuart (1575-1615) was a claimant to the English throne whose more than 100 letters to relatives, her husband, court officials, and friends reveal a powerful drama.

Arbella Stuart: Rival to the Queen by David N. Durant. Biography. Out of print, but available from Alibris.

In the Shadow of the Throne: The Lady Arbella Stuart by Ruth Norrington. Biography that says both Arbella and James I suffered from porphyria. From Alibris.

Too Near the Throne by Molly Haycraft. A novel based on Arbella Stuart's life. From Alibris.

Politics, Government, & Law

The Early Stuarts: A Political History of England 1603-1642 by Roger Lockyer. Examines the controversial reigns of James I and Charles I.

The Age of Faction by Alan Marshall is about British court politics between 1660 and 1702.

The Political History of Tudor and Stuart England: A Sourcebook edited by Victor Stater. From the bloody overthrow of Richard III to the creation of an imperial state under Queen Anne, this collection of documents illustrates England's transition from the medieval to the modern.

Image Wars: Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603-1660 by Kevin Sharpe. How royalists and parliamentarians managed their public images, from the coronation of James I to the end of Cromwell's protectorate.

Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government by G. R. Elton. Collection of papers about the political, constitutional, and personal problems of the Tudor and Stuart governments. Published in four volumes.

The Stuart Era

Century of Revolution by Christopher Hill. A classic history of the English Civil War.

The Stuart Age: England, 1603-1714 by Barry Coward.

Early Modern England by J. A. Sharpe. A social history of England from 1550 to 1760.

Princes, Pastors and People by Susan Doran. Traces the many changes in religious life that took place during the Tudor and Stuart eras.

The Seventeenth Century: 1603-1688 edited by Jenny Wormald. Leading scholars analyze the Union of 1603 between England and Scotland; the Civil War, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods; and the cultural interaction between the kingdoms.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britain edited by J. S. Morrill. Includes 225 color illustrations. Out of print, but available from Alibris.