John R. Guy introduces the soldier, churchman, and Royalist Fellow of New College who served Russia and Sweden during Cromwell’s years of power, and who returned to post-Restoration Britain to become a prominent parson in the Church of Wales.
The true nature of the relationship between Henry II and his ‘turbulent priest’ Thomas Becket.
John Guy, author of a new biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, explains how working in the archives made him fascinated with sixteenth-century history.
John Guy doubts whether policy was ever imposed on the most wilful of kings.
John Guy uncovers Tudor England's legal profession.
Thomas More is often thought of as a family man who died for his principles, not as a burner of books and heretics.
