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What to read after The Popish Plot by John Philipps Kenyon: 24 titles sharing themes of Stuart Era (1603-1714), Great Britain, and Europe, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Unnatural Murder: Poison in the Court of James I The Overbury Murder — Anne Somerset

Unnatural Murder: Poison in the Court of James I The Overbury Murder

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

The Stuart Age England, 1603-1714 — Barry Coward

The Stuart Age England, 1603-1714

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Historical & Political Ballads and Songs of the Stuart Era — Chris Bennett

Historical & Political Ballads and Songs of the Stuart Era

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Bonnie Prince Charlie A Life — Peter Pininski

Bonnie Prince Charlie A Life

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Not Peace But a Sword The Political Theology of the English Revolution (Expanded Edition) — Stephen Baskerville

Not Peace But a Sword The Political Theology of the English Revolution (Expanded Edition)

Stephen Baskerville

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

The Wizard Earl The Gunpowder Treason & The School of Night — Peter Dixon

The Wizard Earl The Gunpowder Treason & The School of Night

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Reactions to the English Civil War, 1642-49 — John Morrill

Reactions to the English Civil War, 1642-49

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Puritan Rule Under Cromwell — Jane Hayter-Hames

Puritan Rule Under Cromwell

Jane Hayter-Hames

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

In Search of a Kingdom Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire — Laurence Bergreen

In Search of a Kingdom Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

Laurence Bergreen

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Revolution The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo — Peter Ackroyd

Revolution The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Imitatio Christi The Poetics of Piety in Early Modern England — Nandra Perry

Imitatio Christi The Poetics of Piety in Early Modern England

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

The Blazing World A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 — Jonathan Healey

The Blazing World A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

Jonathan Healey

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

‘The King’s Irish’ The Royalist Anglo-Irish Foot of the English Civil War — John Barratt

‘The King’s Irish’ The Royalist Anglo-Irish Foot of the English Civil War

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost — William Poole

Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

The Scapegoat The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham — Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The Scapegoat The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

The History of Pirates — Brenda Ralph Lewis

The History of Pirates

Brenda Ralph Lewis

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

The Anglo-Dutch Moment Essays on the Glorious Revolution and Its World Impact — Jonathan Irvine Israel

The Anglo-Dutch Moment Essays on the Glorious Revolution and Its World Impact

Jonathan Irvine Israel

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Rochester — Charles Williams

Charles Williams

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

NKJV Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Red Letter, Thumb Indexed, Comfort Print [Brown] — Thomas Nelson

NKJV Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Red Letter, Thumb Indexed, Comfort Print [Brown]

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

The Sun Rising King James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain, 1603-1625 — Anna Whitelock

The Sun Rising King James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain, 1603-1625

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Court Lady and Country Wife Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England — Lita-Rose Betcherman

Court Lady and Country Wife Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England

Lita-Rose Betcherman

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Reprobates The Cavaliers of the English Civil War — John Stubbs

Reprobates The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

Soldiers and Civilians, Transport and Provisions Early Modern Military Logistics and Supply Systems During the British Civil Wars, 1638-1653 — Glen W. Price

Soldiers and Civilians, Transport and Provisions Early Modern Military Logistics and Supply Systems During the British Civil Wars, 1638-1653

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

The Siege of King’s Lynn, 1643 — Susan Yaxley

The Siege of King’s Lynn, 1643

Themes: Stuart Era (1603-1714) • Great Britain • Europe

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