A TUDOR-SCHMUDOR Starter Kit!

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  • The books:
    Britain After Rome by Robin Fleming
    My review:
    www.openletter...
    Alfred the Great by Alfred Smyth
    The Venerable Bede!
    Me writing about the Venerable Bede:
    www.openletters...
    The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, edited by Michael Swanton
    Geoffrey of Monmouth!
    Me writing about Geoffrey of Monmouth:
    www.openletters...
    also: the magnificent Penguin Classic edition of Magna Carta:
    www.openletters...
    1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth
    1066: The Year of the Three Battles by Frank McLynn
    The Conqueror by the great Georgette Heyer
    A Great and Terrible King by Marc Morris
    my review:
    www.openletter...
    Edward III by W. Mark Ormond
    my review:
    www.openletter...
    Thomas Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets! Currently gathering dust in an attic near you!
    Me writing about Costain:
    www.openletters...
    The Wars of the Roses by Desmond Seward

ความคิดเห็น • 46

  • @gaildoughty6799
    @gaildoughty6799 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For me the Costain series lit a fire of enthusiasm for all things Plantagenet when I was about 13. Fortunately that never left me. Now I’m pretty fired up for the original source books that you mention here.

  • @lilliannieswender266
    @lilliannieswender266 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    English history in its entirety fascinates me, thanks for doing this, I will certainly follow some of your reading suggestions. Thank you.

  • @throughtheenchantedportal6617
    @throughtheenchantedportal6617 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Yay, a starter kit! I do like this background for filming, it looks good!

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Doesn't the background look snazzy? It almost lends a DIGNITY to the channel!

    • @throughtheenchantedportal6617
      @throughtheenchantedportal6617 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, it does! No one would ever know that the rest of the place is covered in rubble that an adorably mischievous puppy left in her wake.

  • @paulharvey5505
    @paulharvey5505 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very much enjoyed this video. Years ago I got a copy of ‘The Three Edwards’ by Acosta in and couldn’t put it down!
    Nice to know they are still worth reading.
    Just finished a historical drama based on the tail end of the Plantagenet era, so I am hunting down the other three books in that series.

  • @donnakirby6998
    @donnakirby6998 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you Steve for the starter kit! One of many I hope! I’m in heaven!

  • @donnakirby6998
    @donnakirby6998 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I should have waited just a little minute, but yes, a part two wood be great!

  • @laracroft1829
    @laracroft1829 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was so good. Truly enjoy your starter kits and all your recommendations. Please make part 2 of this. Thank you.

  • @jamesholder13
    @jamesholder13 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome starter kit!

  • @claudianowakowski
    @claudianowakowski 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am absolutely disappointed by how few of these books are available through my library. I will have to buy these. Count my vote for Tudor-Schmudor 2. I would like to hear your recommendations for historical fiction before the Tudors as well. And I love the new setting. Looks great.

  • @thefrancophilereader8943
    @thefrancophilereader8943 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now that's more like it ;) I really need to know medieval English history. Thanks for this excellent video!

  • @ameliaallison5573
    @ameliaallison5573 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much! I really had no idea where to start and needed a wonderful guide like yourself. Again, thank you and yes please do a part 2! Love the background! It’s obvious you are in your “happy place” but missing one thing..............Frieda!😄🐶

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was kind of surprised that Frieda didn't simply vault up onto my lap while I was in the chair, but no - she just sat on the bed watching me!

  • @CraftyLadyCraftyLady
    @CraftyLadyCraftyLady 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love your background...very bookish ...📚😘

  • @kimesch9698
    @kimesch9698 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love the camera angle Great view of your bookshelves.
    Can you recommend a history of the Tudors that’s on the light side to get a beginner up to speed?

  • @gwenivere73
    @gwenivere73 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Steve you could make 100 videos on British history, and I'll watch every one. I'm just a bit miffed because I wasn't able to add any new books to my wishlist. All of these were already on there.

  • @JosephQuinton
    @JosephQuinton 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the new location!

  • @bookdisorders
    @bookdisorders 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for these. I have been reading a lot of Tudor history lately be good getting into other british history

  • @todovall7763
    @todovall7763 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, I discovered I'm missing a book from my Costain set due to you, I appreciate the information.

  • @jpdmanchester3226
    @jpdmanchester3226 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well just checked for Thomas Costain and he is a no-go with my local library service

  • @gemma2275
    @gemma2275 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A starter kit! A new starter kit!? What is happening? What channel is this?
    Would you stop pinching me? I'm fine.
    Also this makes me so happy to see you making recommendation videos again ^-^

    • @gemma2275
      @gemma2275 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We need a part 2! ^-^

  • @Ladyjaxs
    @Ladyjaxs 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this starter kit!!! I love reading on the Tudors, but I am interested in reading in the periods leading up to the Plantagenet's. I have been wanting to read Edward III by ormand for a while now. I have access to a better library now so I should be able to start on this list asap!!! lol

  • @char1077
    @char1077 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is amazing, thanks!

  • @seanodonnell3683
    @seanodonnell3683 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please do not forget the BBC's national treasure podcast: 'In Our Time'. over 10 years worth of academic dialogue on a whole host of subjects.
    Main website
    www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl
    or check this out specific to Steve's topic:
    Title: The Tudor State
    www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00546xd

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amazing! I had no idea these existed online!

  • @meganbarton5290
    @meganbarton5290 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I definitely want part two... and three... :)

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      You people are INCORRIGIBLE

    • @meganbarton5290
      @meganbarton5290 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Finally, my husband has the validation he needed! haha!! ;)

    • @meganbarton5290
      @meganbarton5290 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      By the way, the background is nice!

  • @ladynottingham89
    @ladynottingham89 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Part 2 please!

  • @SilverSoulxd
    @SilverSoulxd ปีที่แล้ว

    Greetings Mr. Donoghue , I want to inform you that the links of the articles you posted on the description are not working anymore. Would you be so kind to update the links so I can read them? Thanks.

  • @suemoro
    @suemoro 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is that Henry VIII, on a red bookspine just past your left shoulder, looking on disdainfully as you say Tudor-Scudor?

  • @odense1
    @odense1 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am new to your channel but I will be staying. 😀 like someone else wrote - looking forward to parts 2 .... and 3

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Welcome!

    • @odense1
      @odense1 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      When I went to college i did my dissertation on the Danish conquest of England in 1016. Little did I know I would end up moving to Denmark from Ireland 10 years later. 😀 . Anyways, looking forward to your future updates 👍

  • @lisasstitchingandsuch
    @lisasstitchingandsuch 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nope don't need the pictures! I listen while I cook :) I loved the Mists of Avalon (even though I have since found out the author is in disrepute now) and of course the Plantagenet books by Sharon Penman I guess I should read the real stuff too :P

    • @lisasstitchingandsuch
      @lisasstitchingandsuch 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh and I checked and my library has in storage in the basement The Conquerors Thomas Costain published 1949

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've so far had a bout two dozen emails & texts telling me the same thing: don't worry for even a second about VISUALS! Hah! I've said it before, but I'll say it again: I have the best subscribers in the world.

    • @lisasstitchingandsuch
      @lisasstitchingandsuch 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Except, of course, when Frieda makes an appearance. Then I stop, look and and coo PS did you know the name Frieda means 'peaceful ruler'?

  • @elenamakridina8196
    @elenamakridina8196 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What's with the background?:)))) What next? Are you going to do crazy energy jumps and even more energetic talking and then, God forbid, editing?:))))))

    • @saintdonoghue
      @saintdonoghue  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You don't like it? I thought it looked kind of cozy!

    • @elenamakridina8196
      @elenamakridina8196 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just teasing. I like it:)