Publications
Books
Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty, edited with Aidan Norrie, Carolyn Harris, Danna Messer and Elena Woodacre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Cecily Duchess of York (Bloomsbury, 2017)
The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 (OUP, 2004)
Articles
ʻRichard IIIʼs Boar Badge and Prophetic Tradition,ʼ in The Ricardian (forthcoming, 2024)
ʻThe Queenʼs Secret Arbour: the Coventry of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou,ʼ in Mark Webb ed., St Mary's Guildhall Tapestry (Shaun Tyas, forthcoming, 2024)
ʻRichard Lessy, dean of Cecily duchess of York’s chapel (d. 1498),ʼ in The Ricardian (2023)
ʻAnne Mortimerʼ s legacy to the House of York,ʼ in Paul Dryburgh and Philip Hume eds., The Mortimer's of Wigmore. Dynasty of Destiny (Logaston, 2023)
ʻElizabeth Woodville: The Knightʼs Widow,ʼ in Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts, ed. Aidan Norrie, Carolyn Harris, J.L. Laynesmith, Danna Messer and Elena Woodacre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
ʻDivisive Weddings and a Funeral: Royal Women and Readingʼs Abbeys,ʼ Reading Medieval Studies 48, 2022
ʻLetʼs hear it for Queen Margaret,ʼ The Ricardian Bulletin, June 2022
ʻ1471, the Year that made Richard,ʼ The Ricardian Bulletin, December 2021
ʻThe Abbey were Seeds of the Wars of the Roses were sown,ʼ The Ricardian Bulletin, September 2021
ʻExploding the Myth: Women and Power in the Middle Ages,ʼ Mortimer Matters, July 2021
ʻMiles Forest and the Princes in the Tower,ʼ The Ricardian Bulletin, June 2021
ʻThe Order, Rules and Constructions of the House of the Most Excellent Princess Cecily, Duchess of Yorkʼ in Craig Taylor and Gwilym Dodd, eds. Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England: Essays in honour of W. Mark Ormrod (Boydell and Brewer, 2020)
ʻCecily duchess of York and her Lincolnshire Lands,ʼ The Ricardian XXX, 2020
ʻTo please . . . dame Cecely that in Latyn hath lityll intellect: Books and the Duchess of York,ʼ in Linda Clark ed., The Fifteenth Century XV (Boydell and Brewer, 2017)
ʻIn the Service of Cecily, duchess of York,ʼ The Ricardian Bulletin, September 2017
ʻCecily Neville, duchess of York: the Name of the Rose and other myths,ʼ The Ricardian Bulletin, June 2015
ʻSex, Lies and Richard III's Y Chromosome,ʼ The Ricardian Bulletin, March 2015
ʻThe White Queen and the White Princess: What Happened Next?ʼ on the BBC history website March 18, 2013
ʻTelling Tales of Adulterous Queens in Medieval England: from Olympias of Macedonia to Elizabeth Woodville,ʼ in Lynette Mitchell and Charles Melville, eds., Every Inch a King. Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (Brill, 2013)
ʻThe Piety of Cecily Duchess of York: A Reputation Reconsidered,ʼ in Hannes Kleineke and Christian Steer eds., The Yorkist Age. Harlaxton Medieval Studies XXIII (Shaun Tyas, 2013)
ʻThe Bayeux Tapestry: A Canterbury Tale,ʼ History Today 62, October 2012
‘The Kings’ Mother,’ History Today 56, March 2006
‘Margaret of Anjou,’ in M. Schaus ed., Women and Gender in Medieval Europe. An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2006)
‘Cecily Neville,ʼ The Ricardian Bulletin, Autumn 2005 (website version updated 2017)
‘The Lost Queen,’ BBC History Magazine 5:3, 2004
‘The Thistle & the Rose,’ History Scotland 3, Sept/Oct 2003
‘The People’s Other Princess,’ BBC History Magazine 4:2, 2003
‘Constructing Queenship at Coventry: Pageantry and Politics at Margaret of Anjou’s “Secret Harbour”,’ in L. Clark ed., The Fifteenth Century III. Authority and Subversion (Boydell, 2003)
‘Renaissance Queenship,’ (synopsis of conference paper) The Forth Naturalist and Historian 25, 2002
‘Fertility Rite or Authority Ritual? The Queen’s Coronation in England 1445-87,’ in T. Thornton ed., Social Attitudes and Political Structures in the Fifteenth Century (Sutton, 2000)
‘Crowns and Virgins: Queenmaking during the Wars of the Roses,’ in Katherine Lewis, Noel James Menuge and Kim Phillips eds., Young Medieval Women (Sutton, 1999)
‘A Paper Crown: The Titles and Seals of Cecily Duchess of York,’ The Ricardian X, 1996
‘Joan of Kent’s Tale: Adultery and Rape in the Age of Chivalry,’ Medieval Life 5, 1996
Reviews
Philippa Langley, The Princes in the Tower. Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case (The History Press, 2023) forthcoming in Mortimer Matters
Anne F. Sutton, The King's Work: the Defence of the North under the Yorkist Kings, 1471-85 (Richard III and Yorkist History Trust, 2021) in The Ricardian Bulletin, September 2022
Seb Falk, The Light Ages. A Medieval Journey of Discovery (Penguin, 2020) in The Ricardian Bulletin, June 2021
Nicola Tallis, Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch (Michael O'Mara, 2019) in The Ricardian Bulletin, June 2020
Michael Hicks, Richard III: The Self-Made King (Yale, 2019) in The Ricardian Bulletin, March 2020
Nicola Clark, Gender, Family and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558 (OUP, 2018) in Reading Medieval Studies 19, 2019
Bridget Wells-Furby, Aristocratic Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in the Fourteenth Century: The Life of Lucy de Thweng (1279-1347) (Boydell, 2018) in Social History 44, 2019
Chris Skidmore, Richard III: Brother, Protector, King (W&N, 2017) in The Ricardian Bulletin, March 2018
Jeffrey James, Edward IV: Glorious Son of York (Amberley, 2015) in Royal Studies Journal 3:2, 2016
Amy Licence, Cecily Neville: mother of kings (Amberley, 2014) in The Ricardian Bulletin, December 2014
Kavita Mudan Finn, The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre and Historiography, 1440-1627, Queenship and Power, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) in Speculum 88:4, 2013
Ruth Mazo Karras, Unmarriages. Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) in The Times Literary Supplement, November 9, 2012
Helen Castor, She-Wolves. The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (Faber and Faber, 2010) in The Times Literary Supplement, December 12, 2010
Nancy Goldstone, Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe (Viking, 2007) in The Historian 71, Summer 2009
Michael Hicks, Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III (Tempus, 2006) in The English Historical Review 122, June 2007
Arlene Okerlund, Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen (Tempus, 2005) in The English Historical Review 121, September 2006
Alison Weir, Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God Queen of England (Cape, 1999) and Ann Trindade, Berengaria: In Search of Richard the Lionheart’s Queen (Four Courts Press, 1999) in The Times Higher Education Supplement, August 25, 2000
Margaret Howell, Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-Century England (Blackwell, 1998) in The Times Higher Education Supplement, November 27, 1998