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Nathen Amin is a historian and author from Carmarthenshire, West Wales, specialising in the 15th century and the reign of Henry VII. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has published five acclaimed history books – Tudor Wales (2014), York Pubs (2016), The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line That Captured the Throne (2017), Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck and Warwick (2021) and Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor (2024), which was named a BBC History Book of the Year.

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​Nathen is an experienced public speaker, having presented more than one hundred lectures to societies, museums and book festivals across the UK, including BBC History Weekend, Windsor Castle, HistFest, Southwark History Festival, Warwick Words, British Museum, Gloucester History Festival, Cirencester History Festival, Alison Weir Tours, Lichfield Literature Festival, Oundle Festival of Literature, Lancaster Historical Writing Festival, Bosworth Medieval Festival, and Barnet Medieval Festival.

He has also featured on British, Australian and German radio and television speaking about history, as well as in print and online media throughout the UK. In 2020 he was a founding member of the Henry Tudor Trust and in 2024 served as a book judge for the Historical Writers’ Association.

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A Very Tudor Christmas

A Very Tudor Christmas

A Very Tudor ChristmasHave you ever wondered how the early Tudors marked Christmas? Well, I hope you have because that is exactly what this article will explore!Now, Christmas traditions in the UK (and indeed, the rest of the world) may appear set in stone – for example, the tree (real ...
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Nathen Amin

Nathen Amin

Nathen Amin, what first attracted you to the period or periods you work in?I was raised in West Wales, where history and the past is very vivid in the form of mythology, legends and, of course, castles. So an appreciation of the magic of the world that once was has always been present in ...
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