Henry VIII by A. F. Pollard is a landmark scholarly biography of the second Tudor monarch, the king whose reign transformed England’s church, state, and crown. Pollard examines Henry’s six marriages, the break with Rome, the fall of Wolsey and More, and the consolidation of royal power into the form that shaped modern England.
Long regarded as a standard life, the book treats Henry not as a caricature of tyranny but as a calculating ruler at the centre of a constitutional revolution. It remains essential reading for the Tudor monarchy and the making of the English state. This free EPUB download offers Pollard’s complete biography.