Volume IV of John Richard Green’s celebrated History of the English People covers the Tudor period — the religious upheaval of the Reformation, the reign of Elizabeth I, and the beginnings of England’s maritime expansion. Green’s distinctive social history perspective ensures that events are seen not only through the actions of monarchs and ministers but through the lives of ordinary English men and women.
Green’s narrative remains among the most readable accounts of Tudor England ever written, accessible to general readers while still grounded in serious scholarship. Download the free EPUB for this essential volume in one of the great Victorian works of British historical writing.