Publications

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

Books/Journals/Edited collections

Forthcoming: Review of The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots, edited by Steven J. Reid (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024), The Scottish Historical Review.

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), Royal Succession (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).

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

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.