The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain Paperback Allan Massie

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Covering the history of the Stuart dynasty from the Middle Ages through the 18th century is a daunting topic and yet this volume manages to accomplish it in less than 400 pages. The result is, as might be expected, dense. At times, that density made this book difficult read, but I did appreciate ...

from Daumari

Another from my failed attempt to do categories for winter reading program. The Stuarts are interesting, but it didn't grab me as much as Tudor drama does. That being said, it was a nice recall back to AP Euro and the doc we watched that had an overly dramatic reenactment of Charles I's beheading.

from Schmerguls

This is a popular historyof the Stuarts, covering not only the Stuarts who were kings of England but the ones who were kings of Scotland, and of course Mary Queen of Scots, the most famous of the family. The author looks on the Stuarts with a fairly favorable eye. All his research was in secondar...

from setnahkt

From the Stuart History reading program. (See After Elizabeth, Nell Gwynn, Arbella, and Unnatural Murder). Author Allan Massie is a Scot and therefore expected to be sympathetic – and is, but not without also being able to call out stupidity and stubbornness when he sees it. Nothing if not thoro...