Books by Susan Brigden
Susan Brigden FBA is a British historian and a fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford. In 2013, she won the Wolfson History Prize for her book, Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest.
“This tells the story of the Reformation in London. It covers a longer period than the 1530s, but gives a good sense of what was happening on the ground and the intense divisions in society that the Reformation provoked.” Read more...
The Best Thomas Cromwell Books
Benedict King, Journalist
Interviews with Susan Brigden
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748–1789
by Robert Darnton -
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
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Monet: The Restless Vision
by Jackie Wullschläger -
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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
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Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
by Nandini Das
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2024 Duff Cooper Prize, recommended by Susan Brigden
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2024 Duff Cooper Prize, recommended by Susan Brigden
If you’re looking for nonfiction with a literary sensibility and a historical bent, the books highlighted by the annual Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize are a great place to start. British historian Susan Brigden, author of Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest and one of the prize’s judges, talks us through the 2024 shortlist — from war and revolution to the splendours of Mughal India and Monet’s garden at Giverny.
Interviews where books by Susan Brigden were recommended
The Best Thomas Cromwell Books, recommended by Benedict King
The Mirror and the Light—the final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s epic trilogy covering the life of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister and architect of the English Reformation—was published to great acclaim this month. Here, Five Books contributing editor Benedict King chooses five of the best books to help you get to grips with the real Thomas Cromwell and the political and religious environment in which he operated. You can watch Benedict talking about his Thomas Cromwell book choices here.
