Youve probably been asked this; but do you have any favorite books, movies, media, etc. on the tudor period or Elizabeth 1?
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Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
The Man on a Donkey (kind of. It DOES live in my brain rent free.)
The Concubine (Christopher Rae)
On ao3 Hollow Bones and Draw Your Swords
How To Behave Badly In Renaissance Britain both by Ruth Goodman
Henry VIII both by Lucy Wooding
Tudor Children by Nicholas Orme
New Worlds Lost Worlds by Susan Brigden
Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann
All Things Made New by Diarmaid Macculloch (make that anything by Macculloch)
The Age of Reformation by Alec Ryrie
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer- good, but read this one in conjunction with other historians like Kaufmann.
Thomas More by Joanne Paul. This one's more academic than the others. But it's very good for looking at Tudor politics and philosophy.
Elizabeth (1998). Not accurate but more rewatchable than most Tudor dramas.
Lady Jane (1986). Inaccurate but moving.
Anonymous (2011). It's an AU. Not realistic in the slightest. But it moves me, and Elizabeth is such a force of nature that I end up loving her. She's closer to a Greek goddess than the real Elizabeth. Part Athena, part Aphrodite. She's tempestuous, impulsive, but never pathetic. She does whatever she damn well pleases and I find that compelling.
Luther (1974). Not about the Tudors but one of their most important contemporaries.
Blackadder II. Not as good as the later series but still fun.
Elizabeth R. Essential viewing.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII. The most accurate Henry VIII. And refreshing in its interpretation of Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves.
The Shadow of the Tower. I haven't seen all of it. But episode 5 is pretty stand-alone and probably my favourite single piece of Tudor media. You can watch it here. Episode 7 is also a good standalone episode if u want an hour of wacky Tudor hijinks here
Episode 8 if you want early tudor explorers here
Not strictly Tudor, but Jane Howell's Shakespeare tetralogy (Henry VI 1-3, Richard III) is one of my favourite pieces of media... ever.
I'm also fond of the documentaries Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home and A Tudor Feast.
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