Sarah Gristwood Archives - Aspects of History

Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945, by Kathleen Harriman

Edited by historian Geoffrey Roberts, the American's letters open up the workings of Allied diplomacy and reveal optimism as she navigates the turning points of the 20th century.

Sarah Gristwood

We don’t think of ‘the Harrimans’ as we think of, say, the Kennedys. But maybe we should. For serious students of Anglo-American relations there’s W. Averell Harriman, the diplomat (politician, financier; himself the son of a famous railroad baron) tasked with...

AoH Book Club: Sarah Gristwood on the Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

In a century of turmoil and conflict, both religious and political, women often stood up to govern and rule, assuming serious roles in the absence of male counterparts. Historian Sarah Gristwood discusses with our editor the stories and successes of several female leaders who wielded influence across the continent.

Sarah Gristwood

AoH Book Club: Sarah Gristwood on the Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe Sarah, what are your thoughts on Game of Queens today, nearly ten years after it was published? It's one of the books of which I am most proud - because I really did feel that for the...

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Tudors in Love - Sarah Gristwood on Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and their courtly love. | RSS.com Tudors in Love - Sarah Gristwood on Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and courtly love - Part Two | RSS.com

The Tudors in Love, by Sarah Gristwood

The latest from the acclaimed Tudor historian looks at a new area of study: the courtly code.

Steven Veerapen

The love stories of the Tudors have been fodder for historical fiction for centuries. Few do not know the stories of Henry VIII’s wives, Mary I’s marriage to Philip of Spain, and Queen Elizabeth’s array of courtships and succession of favourites. One might be forgiven...

Sarah Gristwood

Sarah Gristwood is the author of several bestselling Tudor histories; most recently Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe. In September 2021 she will bring out The Tudors in Love (Oneworld), while also contributing essays to two academic volumes, on ‘The Queen as Artist’ in the sixteenth century, and on Prince Philip.

Sarah Gristwood

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Season of Scandals: Christine Keeler & John Profumo

The Cold War scandal that still fascinates today.

Sarah Gristwood

That famous photograph is lodged in all our memories – Christine Keeler naked, astride a concealing chair. And perhaps we all have our own background with this story. Ok, my husband Derek Malcolm’s memories are a bit more direct than most. As a young man on the...