Publications

Here is a list of my published works and forthcoming works:

Books/Journals/Edited collections 

Forthcoming: ‘Representing Henry VII and Elizabeth of York in The Shadow of the Tower (1972)’ in Jessica Hower, William Robison and Valerie Schutte (eds), Adapting the Tudors: From Novels to Film to Public History (publisher details tbc).

Forthcoming: ‘Lady Katherine Grey, Succession Tracts and the Early Elizabethan Succession Question’ in Louise Berglund, Fabian Persson, Margaretha Nordquist, Alexander Isacsson and Caroline Wilhelmsson (eds), The Role of Women in Royal Succession in Europe and Beyond (publisher details tbc).

Forthcoming: ‘Helena Bonham Carter as Tudor Queens on Screen: Lady Jane (1986) and Henry VIII (2003)’ in Sarah Betts (ed.), To Play the Queen: Historical Royal Women on Stage and Screen (publisher details tbc).

Forthcoming: ‘Lady Jane Grey: Innocent Victim, Protestant Martyr, or Proactive Queen?’ in William Robison and Valerie Schutte (eds), The Tudors, Myth, and Memory: Embroidered Truths, Outright Falsehoods, and Popular Belief (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan).

2026: ‘Visualizing the Executions of British Queens in Early Modern Europe’, Historical Research 99(283), 46–77.

2025: Review of The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots, edited by Steven J. Reid (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024), The Scottish Historical Review 104(1), 135–7.

2023: Review of Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty, edited by Aidan Norrie, Carolyn Harris, J. L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer and Elena Woodacre (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Royal Studies Journal 10(2), 438–40.

2023: Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy, Stroud: The History Press.

2021: ‘The Dates of Birth of Henry VIII’s English-Born Wives’, Royal Studies Journal 8(2), 124–45.

2019: Katherine Howard: Henry VIII’s Slandered Queen, Stroud: The History Press (revised and expanded edition of Katherine Howard: A New History, Lucar: MadeGlobal, 2014).

2017: Queenship in England, 1308-1485: Gender and Power in the Late Middle Ages, Lucar: MadeGlobal. 

Websites

2025: ‘The five best TV shows about the Tudors – recommended by a historian’, The Conversation, accessed at https://theconversation.com/the-five-best-tv-shows-about-the-tudors-recommended-by-a-historian-266864

2024: ‘To the Tower: The Tragic Fates of Jane and Katherine Grey’, EPOCH, accessed at https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/to-the-tower-the-tragic-fates-of-jane-and-katherine-grey

2023: ‘Five Things You May Not Know About Lady Katherine Grey’, The History Press, accessed at https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-lady-katherine-grey/

2021: ‘Lady Katherine Grey: Tudor Heiress’, Team Queens, accessed at https://teamqueens.org/2021/08/12/lady-katherine-grey-tudor-heiress/

2019: ‘The Portraiture of Queen Katherine Howard’, On the Tudor Trail, accessed at https://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2019/05/14/the-portraiture-of-queen-katherine-howard-by-conor-byrne/

2019: ‘The Teenage Tudor Queen’, Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide, accessed at https://www.ladyjanegrey.info/?page_id=15716

2019: ‘Did Catherine Howard Commit Adultery?’, History Extra, accessed at https://www.historyextra.com/period/tudor/did-catherine-katherine-howard-henry-viii-fifth-wife-commit-adultery-guilty-execution/

2018: ‘Lost to History: Anne Boleyn’s Life, 1521-1527’, On the Tudor Trail, accessed at https://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2018/01/25/lost-to-history-anne-boleyns-life-1521-1527/

2018: ‘Anne Stanley: England’s Rightful Queen?’, Tudor Society, accessed at https://www.tudorsociety.com/anne-stanley-englands-rightful-queen-by-conor-byrne/

2017: ‘The Foreign Consort: Power, Position and Peril’, The Anne Boleyn Files, accessed at https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/foreign-consort-power-position-peril-conor-byrne/

2017: ‘Joan of Navarre: Duchess of Brittany, Lancastrian Queen’, On the Tudor Trail, accessed at https://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2017/02/18/joan-of-navarre-duchess-of-brittany-lancastrian-queen/

2017: ‘Katherine of Valois: Lancastrian Queen, Tudor Wife’, Tudor Society, accessed at https://www.tudorsociety.com/katherine-valois-lancastrian-queen-tudor-wife/?utm_content=cmp-true

2017: ‘Intercession and Motherhood: The Queenships of Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia’, Medievalists, accessed at https://www.medievalists.net/2019/03/intercession-and-motherhood-the-queenships-of-philippa-of-hainault-and-anne-of-bohemia/

2017: ‘Isabella of France - A Study in Contrast’, Janet Wertman, accessed at https://janetwertman.com/2017/02/14/isabella-of-france-a-study-in-contrast-guest-post-by-conor-byrne/

2017: ‘Mary I - An Underappreciated Queen’, The Anne Boleyn Files, accessed at https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/mary-underappreciated-queen/

2016: ‘Triumph and Tragedy: The Enduring Appeal of Henry VIII’s Six Wives’, The Anne Boleyn Files, accessed at https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/triumph-tragedy-enduring-appeal-henry-viiis-six-wives-conor-byrne/

2016: ‘Henry VIII’s six wives are as popular as ever’, Tudor Society, accessed at https://www.tudorsociety.com/henry-viiis-six-wives-popular-ever-conor-byrne/

2015: ‘The Offspring of Thomas and Elizabeth Boleyn’, Tudor Society, accessed at https://www.tudorsociety.com/the-offspring-of-thomas-and-elizabeth-boleyn-by-conor-byrne/

2015: ‘Anne Boleyn’s Appearance: Does It Really Matter?’, Tudor Society, accessed at https://www.tudorsociety.com/anne-boleyns-appearance-does-it-really-matter-by-conor-byrne/

2015: ‘Was Katherine Parr a Feminist?’, Tudor Society, accessed at https://www.tudorsociety.com/katherine-parr-feminist-conor-byrne/

2015: ‘Africans in Tudor and Stuart England’, Tudor Society, accessed at https://www.tudorsociety.com/africans-in-tudor-and-stuart-england-by-conor-byrne/

2015: ‘Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset’, Tudor Society, accessed at https://www.tudorsociety.com/anne-seymour-duchess-of-somerset-by-conor-byrne/

2014: ‘Abuse and Dishonour in the Life of Katherine Howard’, The Anne Boleyn Files, accessed at https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/abuse-dishonour-life-katherine-howard-guest-article-conor-byrne/

2014: ‘Power and Control: Katherine Howard’s Relationships’, On the Tudor Trail, accessed at https://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2014/10/31/power-and-control-katherine-howards-relationships/

2014: ‘Queen Katherine Howard: The Royal Stepmother’, The Anne Boleyn Files, accessed at https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/queen-katherine-howard-royal-stepmother-guest-article-conor-byrne-giveaway/

2014: ‘Katherine Howard’s Birthday’, On the Tudor Trail, accessed at https://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2014/08/01/katherine-howards-birthday-a-guest-post-by-conor-byrne/

2014: ‘Mary Boleyn: A Reassessment’, The Anne Boleyn Files, accessed at https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/mary-boleyn-reassessment-conor-byrne/

2014: ‘“There Was Never Such a Whore”: The Downfalls of Queens Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard’, The Creation of Anne Boleyn, accessed at https://thecreationofanneboleyn.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/there-was-never-such-a-whore-the-downfalls-of-queens-anne-boleyn-and-katherine-howard/

2014: ‘The Queens’ Lovers’, On the Tudor Trail, accessed at https://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2014/04/15/the-queens-lovers-by-conor-byrne/

2014: ‘A Formative Childhood? A Comparison of the Reigns of Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor’, The Creation of Anne Boleyn, accessed at https://thecreationofanneboleyn.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/a-formative-childhood-a-comparison-of-the-reigns-of-mary-stuart-and-elizabeth-tudor/

Magazines

Tudor Life Magazine - https://www.tudorsociety.com/category/magazine/

2018, May: ‘The Elizabethan Succession’, pp. 8-14.

2018, April: ‘Anne Boleyn’s Sixth Finger’, pp. 18-22.

2018, March: ‘Henry Howard, earl of Surrey’, pp. 22-25.

2018, February: ‘Royal Mothers-in-Law during the Wars of the Roses’, pp. 32-38.

2018, January: ‘The Last Days of Henry VIII’, pp. 54-56.

2017, December: ‘Margaret Clitherow’, pp. 50-53.

2017, November: ‘The Queens and their Ladies’, pp. 36-40.

2017, October: ‘The Portraiture of Katherine Howard’, pp. 54-58.

2017, September: ‘A Dark Haired Queen?’, pp. 24-27.

2017, August: ‘The Field of Cloth of Gold’, pp. 2-7.

2017, July: ‘The Queen and Her Houses: The Residency of Mary, Queen of Scots in England’, pp. 14-18.

2017, June: ‘The Life of Anne of Cleves, Post-Annulment: 1540-1557’, pp. 16-20.

2017, May: ‘Drowned in Wine: The Perplexing Death of George, Duke of Clarence, 1478’, pp. 16-18.

2017, April: ‘The Wanton and the Nurse: Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr in Film’, pp. 20-26.

2017, March: ‘The Tudors’ Lost Heirs’, pp. 26-32.

2017, February: ‘Women of the Italian Renaissance’, pp. 20-24.

2017, January: ‘Barren and Blessed: The Propagandistic Historiography of the Tudor Queens’, pp. 24-30.

2016, December: ‘The Male Relatives of Henry VIII’s English-Born Wives’, pp. 34-38.

2016, November: ‘Beauty in Early Modern England’, pp. 34-38.

2016, October: ‘Jane Seymour and Sixteenth-Century Expectations of Queenship’, pp. 14-22.

2016, August: ‘The Sisters of Queen Elizabeth of York’, pp. 14-17.

2016, May: ‘Queen Katherine Howard’s Letter to Thomas Culpeper’, pp. 2-7.

2016, February: ‘Modernising Sex in Tudor England’, pp. 10-15.

2015, July: ‘Childbearing Women in Tudor and Stuart England’, pp. 18-22.