by sue.copsey | Dec 3, 2025 | book reviews, English royals, history books, King, Queen
Over the past year or so I’ve been reviewing history books for the New Zealand Listener. Safe to say, 2025 has been a great year for non-fiction history books which, while meticulously researched and written by stellar historians, have stopped taking themselves...
by sue.copsey | Oct 21, 2024 | book reviews, English royals, King
How well do you know your Henrys? There was the large, bearded one who had six wives and treated them badly. Henry number eight, of course. Seventh? The first Tudor king, killed Richard III in battle. Sixth? I’m guessing a few blank looks, now we’re heading back into...
by sue.copsey | Oct 21, 2023 | book reviews
Young Queens is the latest in a recent flurry of books by female historians seeking to highlight significant but often overlooked women in history: queens and consorts, wives and mothers who, for centuries, have been relegated to the footnotes while male historians...
