Welcome to Not Just The Tudors. I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and this is my review of the year 2022.

This is my totally subjective look back at the year just gone and all of its Tudor and

not just Tudor history and it's the last new episode of the year. So it gives me a chance to

review books, exhibitions, TV and to round up all the relevant historical discoveries of the year

and it's been quite a year.

Every year I choose five of the best historical books of the year to recommend in this podcast.

The criteria is they have to have been published in the year just gone and they all draw on history

from what I think of as our Not Just The Tudors periods, somewhere between 1492 and 1692.

And this year it has been difficult to whittle it down to five but I do have a list of five

history books for you where I've compromised it's that this year I've added one novel to the list as well.

So here's my recommendations for books of 2022 by author's surname.

The first book that I absolutely have to recommend after this year of reading is The Siege of

Loyalty House by Jesse Charles. This book is utterly beautiful it's so well written it's

sensitive it's deeply deeply researched. It's a work of micro history it tells the story of the

British Civil War through one siege, one moment of hell at Basing House the largest non-rawel house

in 17th century England. Jesse Charles came on the podcast early in the year and I asked her why

she wrote this story. I wasn't sure for a while actually if it would fly as a book because I

loved the story I'd always remembered and had in my head this image of Inigo Jones the great

architect of the age he was 72 years old at the time of the stormy of Basing House and he was

stripped of his clothes and carried out wrapped in a blanket and I always remembered that image

but I wasn't sure if there would be enough characters and people and what I wanted to do was tell

the story of really the whole civil war explain the civil war and the impact of the war and the before

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