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Tracy Borman


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Tracy Borman, PhD, FRHistS, FSA is a historian and author from Scothern, United Kingdom. She is most widely known as the author of Elizabeth's Women.

Borman was born and brought up in the village of Scothern, England near Lincoln. She was educated at Scothern Primary School (now Ellison Boulters School), William Farr School, Welton, and Yarborough School, Lincoln. She taught history at the University of Hull, where she was awarded a Ph.D in 1997. Elizabeth's Women was serialized and became a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in September 2009. Tracy Borman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, also in September 2009
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Average rating: 4.09 · 25,567 ratings · 2,870 reviews · 28 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Private Lives of the Tu...

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The King's Witch

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Thomas Cromwell: The Untold...

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Elizabeth's Women: Friends,...

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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: ...

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Crown & Sceptre: A New Hist...

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Queen of the Conqueror: The...

3.91 avg rating — 1,751 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
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The Devil's Slave (Frances ...

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The Stolen Crown: Treachery...

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The Fallen Angel (Frances G...

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“Just as Anne had hoped, this child would one day bring England to such glory and power that its name would echo down the centuries as one of the greatest monarchs who ever lived.”
Tracy Borman, Elizabeth's Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen

“St Paul taught that the celibate cared for the things of the Lord while the married cared for the things of the world. This was endorsed (in theory at least) by the 500-year-old legacy of communal celibacy within the hundreds of monasteries that dominated the English countryside. At”
Tracy Borman, The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty

“A woman with a good education was compared to a madman with a sword: she would be a danger to herself and to others.”
Tracy Borman, Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

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